US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on March 31 for "Passive bioinspired sensor" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,840, issued on March 31, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Passive bioinspired sensor" was invented by Kevin Major (Alexandria, Va.), Kenneth J. Ewing (Edgewood, Md.), Robert R. Nicol (Arlington, Va.), L. Brandon Shaw (Woodbridge, Va.) and Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chemical-detecting apparatus includes an array of sensors. Each sensor of the array of sensors is oriented skyward in operation. Each sensor includes a chemical receiver including a plurality of infrared color vision filters cooperating t...