US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Sept. 23 for "Systems, devices, and methods for gas sensing" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,399, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Systems, devices, and methods for gas sensing" was invented by Max Shulaker (Weston, Mass.) and Mindy Deanna Bishop (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monolithic, three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuit (IC) device includes a sensing layer, a memory layer, and a processing layer. The sensing layer includes a plurality of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNFETs) that are functionalized with at least 50 functional materials to generate data in response to exposure to a gas. The memory layer stores the data gen...