US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES, C.N.R.S., INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLE on Aug. 5 for "Optical device for detecting an acoustic wave" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,234, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris), UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES (Saint Martin D 'Heres, France), C.N.R.S. (Paris) and INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLE (Grenoble, France).

"Optical device for detecting an acoustic wave" was invented by Thomas Lauwers (Grenoble, France), Skandar Basrour (Grenoble, France), Jean-Guillaume Coutard (Grenoble, France), Alain Gliere (Grenoble, France) and Guillaume Laffont (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device and method for detecting an acoustic wave propagating toward a membrane, the memb...