ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,312, issued on March 17, was assigned to The University of Warwick (Coventry, Great Britain).
"Particle-sensing device" was invented by Jan Specht (Coventry, Great Britain), Marina Cole (Coventry, Great Britain), Siavash Esfahani (Coventry, Great Britain) and Julian Gardner (Coventry, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for particle sensing is disclosed. The device includes a sensor including a bulk acoustic wave resonator having a resonant frequency, an acoustic mirror arranged to support the resonator, and a heater in thermal communication with the resonator such that a resonator temperature is based on a heater ...