US Patent Issued to United States Department of Energy on Oct. 28 for "Plasmonic microwave metamaterial waveguide sensing" (New Mexico, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,268, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to United States Department of Energy (Washington).

"Plasmonic microwave metamaterial waveguide sensing" was invented by Roman Shugayev (Albuquerque, N.M.), Jagannath Devkota (Pittsburgh) and Paul R. Ohodnicki Jr. (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to detect the presence and or concentration of an analyte in the environment of a spoof plasmon sensor having the steps of: providing a spoof plasmon sensor into an environment; interrogating said spoof plasmon sensor with an electromagnetic signal; collecting a modified electromagnetic signal from the spoof plasmon sensor; and analyzin...