ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,043, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris), ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE DE PARIS (Paris) and SORBONNE UNIVERSITE (Paris).

"Method and apparatus for detecting a photochemically active chemical species in a sample" was invented by Ludovic Jullien (Paris), Raja Chouket (Paris), Agathe Espagne (Paris), Annie Lemarchand (Paris), Thomas Le Saux (Paris) and Agnes Pellissier-Tanon (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a photochemically active chemical species in a sample, comprising the steps of: a) illuminating the sample with light at a wavelength suitable to trigger a rea...