US Patent Issued to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique on Aug. 26 for "Culture plate" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,354, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Paris), Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (Grenoble, France) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris).

"Culture plate" was invented by Tony Maindron (Grenoble, France), Franz Bruckert (Grenoble, France) and Marianne Weidenhaupt (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A culture plate including: an array of light sources formed inside and on top of a semiconductor substrate; a transparent planarization layer coating the array of light sources; and an array of wells formed on said layer, each light s...