US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on Feb. 4 for "Contactless element detection device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,865, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Contactless element detection device" was invented by Pierre-Henri Orefice (Gif sur Yvette, France) and Charles Hudin (Gif sur Yvette, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contactless detection device, comprising a detection surface; a plurality of actuators acoustically coupled to the detection surface; an ultrasonic acoustic wave detector; an electronic and/or IT computer, the device being configured to detect one or more element(s) by repeating the following steps: focusing ultrasonic acoustic waves emitted by the actu...