US Patent Issued to ams-OSRAM on March 3 for "Particulate matter detector and method for detecting particulate matter" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,120, issued on March 3, was assigned to ams-OSRAM AG (Premstatten, Austria).

"Particulate matter detector and method for detecting particulate matter" was invented by Jochen Kraft (Bruck an der Mur, Austria), Jaka Pribosek (Villach, Austria) and Andreas Tortschanoff (Villach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A particulate matter detector includes a light emitter configured to emit light, a first, a second and a third waveguide, a waveguide splitter, a detector, and a controller. The third waveguide is free of cladding. The first waveguide is coupled to the light emitter and guides emitted light toward the waveguide splitter. Th...