US Patent Issued to MOUND LASER & PHOTONICS CENTER on June 30 for "Systems and methods to increase sensor robustness" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,353, issued on June 30, was assigned to MOUND LASER & PHOTONICS CENTER INC. (Nashua, N.H.).

"Systems and methods to increase sensor robustness" was invented by Clark T. Olsen (Dassel, Minn.), Michael W. Davis (Rockford, Minn.), Douglas P. Riemer (Waconia, Minn.) and Matthew S. Lang (Excelsior, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is described. The apparatus including a substrate; one or more sensors and one or more electrical circuits formed on the substrate, the one or more electrical circuits electrically coupled with at least one of the one or more sensors; and a metal layer formed over the sensors, wherein the metal ...