ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,785, issued on July 28, was assigned to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Paris) and L3 MEDICAL (Saint Quentin Fallavier, France).
"Portable device for estimating a gas concentration released by a medium" was invented by Pierre Grangeat (Grenoble cedex, France), Myrna Violeta Jaillet-Casillas (Grenoble cedex, France) and Fabien Stocard (Sucy en Brie, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measuring device is disposed against a medium, the device extending between a contact face applied facing the medium and a distal end, and including a lateral wall extending between the contact face and the distal end....