US Patent Issued to LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (LIST) on Feb. 10 for "Quartz crystal microbalance with plasmonic sensing capacity" (Luxembourger Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,772, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (LIST) (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg).

"Quartz crystal microbalance with plasmonic sensing capacity" was invented by Sivashankar Krishnamoorthy (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg) and Rishabh Rastogi (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) sensor is proposed. The QCM sensor comprises a piezoelectric substrate and at least two electrodes in contact with the substrate to induce shear deformations therein through the inverse piezoelectric effect. The substrate has a sensing surface, and, on that surf...