US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Michigan, Masco on Nov. 25 for "Multi-functional water quality sensor" (Michigan, Indiana, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,904, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Masco Corp. (Taylor, Mich.).

"Multi-functional water quality sensor" was invented by Klaus Brondum (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Mark Andrew Burns (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Wen-Chi Lin (Saline, Mich.), Michael McCague (Escondido, Calif.), Stephen Michael Stec (Dearborn, Mich.), Brian N. Johnson (Ypsilanti, Mich.) and Garry Marty (Fishers, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-functional sensor assembly includes an electrically non-conductive substrate defining at least a distal region, intermediary region, and proximal region that are each ...