ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,959, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to EAGLE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Sensing system having a MEMS nitrogen vacancy sensing device and related methods" was invented by Scott Rauscher (Washington), Haley Stumvoll (West Melbourne, Fla.), James Drakes (Occoquan, Va.), Fraser R. Dalgleish (Vero Beach, Fla.), Donna M. Kocak (Satellite Beach, Fla.) and Nicholas Alban (Palm Bay, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing system may include a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device that may include a MEMS substrate having a resonator cavity formed therein, at least one MEMS resonator beam carried by the MEMS substrate withi...