US Patent Issued to SCIENCES ET TECHNIQUES INDUSTRIELLES DE LA LUMIERE on Aug. 11 for "Low-bulk interferometric sensor" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,369, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SCIENCES ET TECHNIQUES INDUSTRIELLES DE LA LUMIERE (Aix-en-Provence, France).

"Low-bulk interferometric sensor" was invented by Jerome Gaillard-Groleas (Aix en Provence, France), Sebastien Gerand (Marignane, France) and Gabrielle Moussu (Vitrolles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an objective (3) for a confocal system (1) of spectral interferometric measurement, comprising: -a source hole (14); -a second beam splitter (12) having a partially reflective face (12a), -a first beam splitter (10) having a face which is configured to form a reference surface (6)...