ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,453, issued on June 23, was assigned to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Paris).

"Electromagnetic field probe" was invented by Loic Marnat (Grenoble, France) and Camille Jouvaud (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present description relates to an electromagnetic field probe (10) comprising: a ground plane (12); a capacitive roof (13); the ground plane and the capacitive roof being separated by a dielectric material (14); at least three vias (110, 111, 112) extending through the dielectric material and comprising at least one excitation via and at least one grounding via arranged so as ...