US Patent Issued to OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES on April 21 for "Molecular detector for surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,556, issued on April 21, was assigned to OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES (Palaiseau, France).

"Molecular detector for surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy" was invented by Alice Fabas (Palaiseau, France), Patrick Bouchon (Verrieres le Buisson, France), Hasnaa El Ouazzani (Palaiseau, France), Riad Haidar (Paris), Jean-Paul Hugonin (Orsay, France) and Jean-Jacques Greffet (Verriere le Buisson, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detector (100) for surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy comprises resonators which are distributed over a surface (S) of a support (1), said surface being ...