ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,519, issued on April 21, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Method and system for determining the state of a sensor through a substrate" was invented by Ghislain Despesse (Grenoble, France), Olivier Freychet (Grenoble, France), Nicolas Garraud (Grenoble, France), Julien Marianne (Fontaine, France), Sebastien Boisseau (Grenoble, France) and Tristan Caroff (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the state of at least one sensor, the method using a first electromechanical transducer and a second electromechanical transducer that are coupled to a sub...