ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,486, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Sensor system for detecting a medium" was invented by Kai Worms (Hardthausen am Kocher, Germany), Julian Kassel (Pforzheim, Germany), Andreas Brenneis (Renningen, Germany) and Florian Mauch (Talheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic field sensor for detecting a magnetic field. The sensor includes a magneto-optical material, an excitation light source configured to emit excitation radiation for exciting electronic states of the magneto-optical material, a microwave source configured to generate an electromagnetic field for feeding a reson...