ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,526, issued on June 23, was assigned to E-SCOPICS (Aix-en-Provence, France).

"Method and device for analysing a medium" was invented by Baptiste Heriard-Dubreuil (Aix-en-Provence, France), Adrien Besson (Marseilles, France), Frederic Wintzenrieth (Aix-en-Provence, France) and Claude Cohen-Bacrie (Aix-en-Provence, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method and device for analysing a medium based on: -emitting plane or spiral emission waves (Oinc1) each having a respective emission angle, -receiving reception signals representative of plane or spiral reception waves (Orec1) each having a respective ...