ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,213, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and TotalEnergies OneTech (Courbevoie, France).

"Autonomous microsystem for immersion into fluid" was invented by Yogesh B. Gianchandani (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Alexander Benken (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Neeharika Vellaluru (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Partha Dutta (Ann Arbor, Mich.), John-Richard Ordonez-Varela (Houston), Aurelie Le-Beulze (Courbevoie, France) and Jean-Gregoire Boero-Rollo (Courbevoie, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various aspects, the present disclosure provides an example autonomous microsystem for immersion into a fluid. ...