ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,540, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Qnami AG (Muttenz, Switzerland), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS) (Paris) and UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER (Montpellier, France).
"Nanoscale thermometry" was invented by Mathieu Munsch (Eschentzwiller, France), Patrick Maletinsky (Zurich, Switzerland), Felipe Favaro de Oliveira (Muttenz, Switzerland), Rana Tanos (Koura, Lebanon), Vincent Jacques (Montpellier, France) and Isabelle Robert-Philip (Castelnau-le-Lez, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nanoscale temperature detector including a diamond sensing probe with a transverse dimension of at least 200 nanometres and a sen...