ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,493, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Hongik University industry-Academia Cooperation Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).
"Sensor for detecting gas and gas flow and method for manufacturing sensor element of sensor" was invented by Jung Hwan Seo (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor element has a substrate, a channel formed in the substrate, and serving as an inlet passage of the gas, a plurality of micro-scale pillars formed in the channel and interfering with the flow of the gas moving through the channel, and a conductive layer formed on a surface of the plurality of pillars by deposition. A sensor has the s...