US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on April 21 for "Porous fluid sensor" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,549, issued on April 21, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Porous fluid sensor" was invented by John A. Wheatley (Stillwater, Minn.), William B. Kolb (Stillwater, Minn.), Audrey A. Sherman (Woodbury, Minn.), Mark A. Roehrig (Stillwater, Minn.), Alan R. Dombrowski (Woodbury, Minn.), Kurt J. Halverson (Lake Elmo, Minn.), Steven P. Swanson (Blaine, Minn.), Del R. Lawson (Cottage Grove, Minn.) and Cory M. Arthur (Eagan, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element includes a porous layer with a network of a plurality of interconnected voids. The porous layer is optically diffusive to a...