ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,800, issued on May 5, was assigned to Niterra Co. Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Gas sensor element and gas sensor" was invented by Hitoshi Furuta (Nagoya, Japan), Akinori Kojima (Nagoya, Japan), Kentaro Kamada (Nagoya, Japan) and Yosuke Suzuki (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas sensor element (10) which includes an element body portion (100); a pump cell (110) which is configured to adjust a concentration of oxygen in a gas to be measured which is introduced into the element body portion (100); a detection chamber (160) which is formed inside the element body portion (100) and into which the gas to be measured in which the co...