ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,664, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Paris).

"Temperature-stabilized opto-mechanical oscillator" was invented by Thomas Furcatte (Grenoble Cedex, France) and Marc Sansa Perna (Grenoble Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An opto-mechanical oscillator, including a first laser light source, emitting a first light beam (F1) at a first wavelength (Lambda1); a resonator configured to oscillate at a resonant frequency (fr), the resonator being optically coupled to the first light beam so that the resonator collects a fraction of the light propagating in the first...