ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,012, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Sensor device and method for making the same" was invented by Nyan-Hwa Tai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chi-Young Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Guan-Kai Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ching Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shau-San Wu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Jin-Liang Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan) and You-Ti Kuo (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor device is adapted to detect glucose concentration in saliva of an object, and includes a conductive substrate, a polymer layer, and a carbon nanomaterial unit. The polymer layer is disposed on the conductive substrat...