US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on March 24 for "Semiconductor device for measuring hydrogen and method for measuring a hydrogen concentration" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,886, issued on March 24, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Semiconductor device for measuring hydrogen and method for measuring a hydrogen concentration" was invented by Horst Theuss (Wenzenbach, Germany) and Rainer Markus Schaller (Aichen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application relates to a semiconductor device (20) for measuring hydrogen including a sensor chip (10), which has a sensor including a sensor layer (14), which changes its mechanical stress upon contact with hydrogen, wherein the sensor is configured to detect the change in the mechanical stress of the sensor layer (14) by w...