ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,615, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Soitec (Bernin, France).

"Two-port acoustic wave sensor device" was invented by Sylvain Ballandras (Besancon, France), Thierry LaRoche (Besancon, France), Julien Garcia (Chamblay, France) and Emilie Courjon (Franois, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic wave sensor device comprises a quartz material layer surface; arranged along a first axis, a first interdigitated transducer disposed over the planar surface of the quartz material layer, a first reflection structure disposed over the planar surface of the quartz material layer, and a second reflection structure disposed over the pl...