ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,618, issued on July 22, was assigned to Sonera Inc. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"System for an acoustically driven ferromagnetic resonance sensor device" was invented by Dominic Labanowski (Berkeley, Calif.) and Sayeef Salahuddin (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for an acoustically driven ferromagnetic resonance (ADFMR) based sensor. The system may include a power source, that provides an electrical signal to power the system, at least one circuit comprising a set of ADFMR circuits, sensitive to external electromagnetic fields, a power splitter, a power combiner and a detector circuit. The system functions to det...