ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,051, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to UT-BATTELLE LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).
"Gas sensor and method of manufacture" was invented by Tolga Aytug (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Christine Fisher (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Pooran C. Joshi (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) and Robert J. Warmack (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low-cost and low-power polyaniline-based (PANI) gas sensor is provided. The PANI-based gas sensor is formed on a flexible polyimide (PI) substrate using additive manufacturing techniques. The gas sensor can include silver interdigitated electrode (IDE) arrays and conducting polymeric sensing films (i.e., PANI) that are printed onto t...