ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,899, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Surface-based luminescence measurement substrate" was invented by Nicolas Descharmes (Hauterive, Switzerland) and Raphael Barbey (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surface-based measurement substrate including: At least one optical cavity layer; a first optical mirror and a second optical mirror, the first and second optical mirrors enclosing the optical cavity layer and defining an optical cavity, the first optical mirror and the second optical mirror are attached or fixed to the optical cavity layer to ...