ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,187, issued on June 17, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Photoluminescence measurement device" was invented by Renaud Varache (Grenoble, France) and Patrick Jeremy Dahan (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoluminescence measurement device may include: a sample holder; a detector configured to collect a photoluminescence signal; a processing unit configured to process a signal collected by the detector; and a support disposed facing a rear face of the sample holder, opposite to the front face, and on one face, called the main face, of which rests at least one radiation so...