US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLE on Feb. 18 for "Photoacoustic or photothermal detector comprising an optical transducer" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,498, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris), UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES (Saint Martin d'Heres, France), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris) and INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLE (Grenoble, France).

"Photoacoustic or photothermal detector comprising an optical transducer" 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 is a device and method for detecting a...