ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,093, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to KWAN-TEK (Ploemeur, France).

"Sensor device comprising a source of fluorescence coupled to a fluorescence collector and magnetometer comprising said device" was invented by Hossein Babashah (Chavannes-pres-Renens, Switzerland), Christophe Galland (Belmont sur Lausanne, Switzerland), Francois Beato (Lorient, France) and Mathis Autant (Lorient, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor device is described. The sensor device comprises a source of fluorescence, wherein said fluorescence is function of a physical phenomenon to be sensed and wherein said fluorescence is generated in response to ...