US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Oct. 28 for "Sensor device and operating method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,222, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Sensor device and operating method thereof" was invented by Kwang Wook Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Iihwan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seokwhan Chung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor device includes: a support structure having a cantilever shape extending in a first direction and having a first end fixed; a sensing element having a surface and a resonant frequency changing according to contaminants adsorbed to the surface and disposed at a second end of the support structure; a frequency detector configure...