US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on April 15 for "System for detecting a stimulus including a radio frequency device responsive to an analyte and a portable reader" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,464, issued on April 15, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"System for detecting a stimulus including a radio frequency device responsive to an analyte and a portable reader" was invented by Timothy Manning Swager (Newton, Mass.), Joseph Michael Azzarelli (Cambridge, Mass.) and Rong Zhu (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless sensor platform design and a single walled carbon nanotube/ionic liquid-based chemidosimeter system can incorporated into a highly sensitive and selective chemical hazard badge that can dosimetrically detect an analyte down to a sub parts-per-million conce...