US Patent Issued to Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales on June 23 for "Sapphire microreactors" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,630, issued on June 23, was assigned to Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris) and Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (Paris).

"Sapphire microreactors" was invented by Samuel Marre (Pessac, France), Carole Lecoutre (Cestas, France), Yves Garrabos (Pessac, France), Cyrielle Fauveau (Pessac, France), Anais Cario (Begles, France) and Olivier Nguyen (Pessac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns the field of microreaction devices and of micro-process engineering. It particularly involves devices having micro-channels (internal chambers of micrometric to submicrometric dimensions) for conveying...