ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,270, issued on July 15, was assigned to Micro Photon Devices Srl (Bolzano, Italy), VERMON S.A. (Tours, France), COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris) and POLITECNICO DI MILANO (Milan).

"Bimodal ultrasonic probe comprising an optical device for diagnosis" was invented by Simone Tisa (Segrate Mi, Italy), Alessandro Ruggeri (Fiorano al Serio BG, Italy), Bogdan Rosinski (Langeais, France), Emmanuel Montauban (Joue-les-Tours, France), Jean-Marc Dinten (Grenoble, France), Antonio Pifferi (Milan), Paola Taroni (Como, Italy), Alberto Dalla Mora (Fiorenzuloa d'Arda (PC), Italy) and Alberto Tosi (Paruzzaro, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the...