US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on March 31 for "Gas sensor and concentration correction method for use in gas sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,922, issued on March 31, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Gas sensor and concentration correction method for use in gas sensor" was invented by Yusuke Watanabe (Nagoya, Japan) and Taku Okamoto (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller of a gas sensor includes: a concentration identification part identifying a concentration of a predetermined gas component based on a measurement pump current flowing between a measurement electrode and an out-of-space pump electrode in accordance with the concentration of the predetermined gas component due to application of a predetermined pump voltage; and a cor...