US Patent Issued to TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT on July 8 for "Optical thin-film hydrogen sensing material based on tantalum or other group v element alloy" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,688, issued on July 8, was assigned to TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT (Delft, Netherlands).

"Optical thin-film hydrogen sensing material based on tantalum or other group v element alloy" was invented by Lars Johannes Bannenberg (Delft, Netherlands) and Herman Schreuders (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a tuneable hydrogen sensing device, to a method for producing said thin-film device, to a use of said thin-film device for detecting a chemical species, to a sensor, such as a hydrogen sensor, to a device comprising said sensor, and to an apparatus for detecting hydrogen."

The patent wa...