US Patent Issued to SAFRAN, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, SORBONNE UNIVERSITE, ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE D'ARTS ET METIERS (ENSAM), CONSERVATOIRE NATIONAL DES ARTS ET METIERS on April 21 for "Laser shock method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,552, issued on April 21, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris), SORBONNE UNIVERSITE (Paris), ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE D'ARTS ET METIERS (ENSAM) (Paris) and CONSERVATOIRE NATIONAL DES ARTS ET METIERS (Paris).

"Laser shock method" was invented by Mathieu Loic Ducousso (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Edouardo Cuenca (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Francois Coulouvrat (Paris) and Laurent Berthe (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for focusing acoustic waves on an interface between two layers of a multilayer structure includes providing laser means able to emit a laser beam toward an exte...