ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,936, issued on March 31, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Multi-frequency sensing system and method" was invented by Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Janell Marie Crowder (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Richard St. Pierre (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Baokai Cheng (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor device may include an electrochemical (EC) gas sensor, a metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) gas sensor, and control circuitry. The control circuitry may provide EC excitation signals to the EC gas sensor, provide at least two MOS excitation signals to the MOS gas sensor, and dete...