US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on Sept. 30 for "Spatially varied plasmonic-photonic sensor for detection and identification of airborne agents" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,468, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"Spatially varied plasmonic-photonic sensor for detection and identification of airborne agents" was invented by Kathleen Dipple (Destin, Fla.) and Jimmy E. Touma (Shalimar, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An odor-localizing autonomous air vehicle includes an airborne robotic platform having a navigation platform, a wireless transmitter communicatively coupled to a management console, and an olfactory sensor mounted on the airborne robotic platform that reacts to at least one olfactory ...