ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,893, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Antenna-coupled graphene Josephson-junction THz/mm-wave apparatus" was invented by Robert Peale (Orlando, Fla.), Masahiro Ishigami (Orlando, Fla.), Michael S. Lodge (Orlando, Fla.), Richard Klemm (Orlando, Fla.) and Francisco Javier Gonzalez (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein relates to an antenna-coupled graphene Josephson-junction THz/mm-wave apparatus (hereinafter "video") detector apparatus and methods thereof. Highly sensitive, broadly tunable detectors may be needed for future sensing appl...