ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,273, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Electromechanical device with adjustable resonance frequency" was invented by Alexandre Reinhardt (Grenoble, France), Bruno Reig (Grenoble, France) and Axel Sauvage (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromechanical device includes a piezoelectric support delimited by a surface, or by two surfaces parallel to each other, and, on this support, a resonator for elastic waves propagating parallel to the surface or surfaces, the resonator including two reflectors that delimit the resonator and which are ref...