US Patent Issued to N5 SENSORS on Feb. 17 for "Controller for optically-activated gas sensors" (Maryland, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,846, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to N5 SENSORS INC. (Rockville, Md.).

"Controller for optically-activated gas sensors" was invented by Abhishek Motayed (Rockville, Md.) and Brian Thomson (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) configured to control one or more gas sensors includes a light emitting diode (LED) driver which receives a pulse width modulator (PWM) signal for driving at least one ultraviolet (UV) LED, wherein an output of the at least one UV LED activates the one or more gas sensors; and an amplifier front end and an analog to digital converter (ADC) configured to c...