US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on July 15 for "Chip-scale optically determined magnetic resonance sensor" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,185, issued on July 15, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Chip-scale optically determined magnetic resonance sensor" was invented by Paul Donald Schmalenberg (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Sean P. Rodrigues (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Ercan Mehmet Dede (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of an integrated apparatus for measuring an external magnetic or other external stimulus are presented herein. This apparatus may include a semiconductor integrated circuit comprising a plurality of metal layers; a solid-state host disposed on the semiconductor integrated circuit and...