ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,468, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Advanced ACEBIOTEK Co. LTD. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Layered detection method and layered detection system" was invented by Ting Cheng (Taipei City, Taiwan), Yung-Chou Hsu (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Hui-Shun Kuan (Taipei City, Taiwan), Jyh-Chern Chen (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Chan-Shan Yang (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Shen-Fu Hsu (Taitung County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A layered detection method comprises generating a terahertz emission electromagnetic wave, and emitting the terahertz emission electromagnetic wave at any angle to a solid material; detecting a plurality of tera...