ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,526, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).
"Optical stack, optical device and optical construction" was invented by John A. Wheatley (Stillwater, Minn.), Dawn V. Muyres (Stillwater, Minn.), Jason W. Bjork (Cottage Grove, Minn.), Mark August Roehrig (Stillwater, Minn.), Gilles J. Benoit (Minneapolis), Theresa J. Gerten (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.), Zhaohui Yang (North Oaks, Minn.), Audrey A. Sherman (Woodbury, Minn.), Bharat R. Acharya (Woodbury, Minn.) and Edward J. Kivel (Stillwater, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device for sensing a presence of an analyte in...