US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College on June 10 for "Systems and methods for making and using sensors, probes, and other devices" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,663, issued on June 10, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for making and using sensors, probes, and other devices" was invented by Qimin Quan (Somerville, Mass.), Wooyoung Hong (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Marko Loncar (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates, in some aspects, to systems and methods for making and using sensors or other devices, such as optical components. One aspect is generally directed to a sensor or other device comprising a nanometer-sized portion. In some embodiments, the sensor can be used to determi...