ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,070, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Optomechanical sensor for sensing species' concentration in a liquid medium" was invented by Marc Sansa Perna (Grenoble, France), Thomas Alava (Grenoble, France) and Sebastien Hentz (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor for sensing the concentration of at least one biological species in blood includes a support, at least one waveguide, and an optomechanical resonator hanging to the support. The optomechanical resonator is optically coupled to the waveguide. The optomechanical resonator is configured to...