US Patent Issued to Oxford Instruments Asylum Research, Ecole Normale Suerieure de Lyon, Universite Claude Bernanrd Lyon 1, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique on May 13 for "Atomic force microscope" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,327, issued on May 13, was assigned to Oxford Instruments Asylum Research Inc. (Goleta, Calif.), Ecole Normale Suerieure de Lyon (Lyons, France), Universite Claude Bernanrd Lyon 1 (Lyons, France) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris).

"Atomic force microscope" was invented by Aleks Labuda (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Basile Pottier (Lyons, France) and Ludovic Bellon (Le Bois-d'Oingt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An atomic force microscope ("AFM") based interferometer, uses a light source, and a splitting optical interface, splitting the light beam into a signal light beam and a reference light beam. Both the s...