US Patent Issued to KOREA ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE on May 12 for "Microplastic detection sensor and microplastic detection system using the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,049, issued on May 12, was assigned to KOREA ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Microplastic detection sensor and microplastic detection system using the same" was invented by Jin Hyoung Kim (Uiwang-si, South Korea), Kyu Sik Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Cheol Ung Cha (Seoul, South Korea) and Kwon Hong Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a microplastic detection sensor for detecting information about microplastic contained in a sample. The sensor may include a fluidic channel substrate including an inlet and an outlet, and a plurality of RF resonance structures. The inlet ma...