US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on April 15 for "Parallel clock salinity sensor" (Maryland, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,631, issued on April 15, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Parallel clock salinity sensor" was invented by Nicholas R. Kantack (Cambridge, Mass.), Jennifer S. Benzing (Baltimore), Tessa B. VanVolkenburg (Ellicott City, Md.), Zhiyong Xia (Rockville, Md.), Spencer A. Langevin (Columbia, Md.) and Daniel S. Ayoub (Columbia, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor for measuring ocean water salinity is described. The sensor may include a measurement clock circuit, a control clock circuit, and a comparator circuit. The measurement clock circuit, having an output that varies with salinity of a fluid, may have a fi...