ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,702, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ET D'ETUDES EUROPEEN (Courbevoie, France).

"Device and method for monitoring a target component or a set of target components through electrical time-domain or frequency-domain reflectometry" was invented by Mickael Boinet (Cavaillon, France), Vincent Gleize (Cavaillon, France), Cedric Payan (Cavaillon, France) and Celine Skora (Cavaillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for tracking a target component through electrical time-domain or frequency-domain reflectometry has an electromagnetic waveguide and an interrogator electrically connected to ...