ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,143, issued on July 8, was assigned to METAL INDUSTRIES RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

"Signal sensing device" was invented by Shu-Hung Huang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Chun-Chieh Tseng (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Jui-Han Lu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Chun-Ming Chen (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Ping-Ruey Chou (New Taipei, Taiwan), Yen-Hsin Kuo (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Tung-Lin Tsai (Tainan, Taiwan), Yen-Hao Chang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Sheng-Hua Wu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Chia-Hua Chang (Changhua County, Taiwan) and Wen-Ming Cheng (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal sensing device includes a body and two signal sensing elements...