ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,600, issued on Jan. 27.

"Individual self-contained device for measuring ionising radiation" was invented by Aurelien Ballier (Pont-Saint-Esprit, France) and Marie-Anne Lissandre (Pont-Saint-Esprit, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The individual autonomous device for measuring at least one ionising radiation comprises: at least one sensor (52) of each said ionising radiation, supplying an electrical signal representative of the quantity of each said ionising radiation; a wireless signal transmitter (53) configured to remotely transmit data representative of each signal supplied by a sensor; and an autonomous electric power sourc...