US Patent Issued to Analog Devices International UnLtd. on Aug. 25 for "Semiconductor devices to detect one or more environmental conditions" (Irish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,852, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).

"Semiconductor devices to detect one or more environmental conditions" was invented by Edward Coyne (Athenry, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Semiconductor devices can include a reservoir of ions and one or more channel regions. Additionally, the semiconductor devices can include one or more diffusion control devices that control the flow of ions from the reservoir to the one or more channel regions. The presence of ions in the one or more channel regions can be detected and used to determine that the semiconductor devices have...