ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,372, issued on May 27, was assigned to Paris Sciences et Lettres (France), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (France), Sorbonne Universite (France) and UNIVERSITE PARIS CITE (France).

"Deformable device for positioning a holder" was invented by Gael Radou (Cergy-le-Haut, France), Thibault Vieille (Rocquencourt, France) and Vincent Croquette (Antony, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device positioning an object according to a given direction, including a frame, a holder for holding the object, the holder being movable relative to the frame according to the given direction, a main lever extending between a firs...