US Patent Issued to 1) COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE on April 21 for "Biological and/or biochemical and/or chemical sensor" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,630, issued on April 21, was assigned to 1) COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris), UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES (Saint-Martin-d'Heres, France) and CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris).

"Biological and/or biochemical and/or chemical sensor" was invented by Thomas Alava (Grenoble, France), Pascal Mailley (Grenoble, France), Yanxia Hou-Broutin (Bilieu, France) and Loic Leroy (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor may include a prism having a first face; a metal first layer covering, via a contact face, the first face; a light source; and a matrix-array detector; the devic...