ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,549, issued on May 19, was assigned to Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corp. (Tokyo).

"Noise reduction gas sensor and gas measurement method" was invented by Takaaki Furuya (Tokyo), Yoshihiko Koizumi (Tokyo), Yuta Takagi (Tokyo), Naoya Ugomori (Tokyo) and Naoya Iwata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas sensor (1) includes a gas measuring unit (40) including a light source (11) provided on a substrate, a detector (41) provided on the substrate and configured to detect a signal based on light emitted from the light source, and a gas detection space (42) provided with a hole for gas to pass through. The natural frequency of a resonance ...