ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,070, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Microsystem for measuring rotational movement and measurement device therefor" was invented by Guillaume Jourdan (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microsystem includes a substrate; a main part connected to the substrate via an anchor; a moving part configured to rotate about an axis of rotation O; a first beam connecting the moving part to the main part, the main direction of said first beam being along a first vector ej1 having as origin the junction of the moving part with the first beam and in the sense o...