US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Aug. 25 for "Dynamical liquid sensors" (Michigan, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,967, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Dynamical liquid sensors" was invented by Yukihiro Tadokoro (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Taewha Lee (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ziqi Yu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Xiaopeng Li (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Taishi Kimura (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor includes a tweezer source configured to manipulate a defect nanoparticle in a liquid to a desired position in an enclosure containing the liquid and a light source configured to optically excite the defect nanoparticle in the liquid at th...