ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,144, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Capacitor-based sensor with intermittency sensitivity" was invented by Majed Saleh Bakheet Alghamdi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mahmoud Elsayed Khater (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Eihab Mohamed Abdel-Rahman (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes an intermittency-based analyte sensor and a method for using the intermittency-based analyte sensor. The intermittency-based analyte sensor includes a microcantilever, a substrate, a plurality of electrodes, a contact pad and a microcontr...