US Patent Issued to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives on Aug. 19 for "Device for collecting and analyzing airborne particles" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,691, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Paris).

"Device for collecting and analyzing airborne particles" was invented by Jean-Maxime Roux (Grenoble, France), Manuel Alessio (Grenoble, France), Melissa Baque (Grenoble, France) and Raphael Trouillon (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for collecting particles present in a gas or gas mixture, including a component, a collection zone disposed on the component, on which said particles are deposited, collection device configured to force said particles to be deposited against the collection zone, a fluidi...