ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,915, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ELEMENT SIX TECHNOLOGIES Ltd. (Didcot Oxfordshire, Great Britain).

"Sensor device formed of diamond material" was invented by Pierre-Olivier Francois Marc Colard (Didcot Oxfordshire, Great Britain), Andrew Mark Edmonds (Didcot Oxfordshire, Great Britain) and Matthew Lee Markham (Didcot Oxfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor device formed of diamond material. The sensor device has a spin defect located in the diamond material, and an electrically conducting region located so as to be interactable with the spin defect. The electrically conducting region extends from an...