Hello @thescientist, and many thanks for offering this community a glimpse of your lab processes! I'm daily growing more aware of another relevant Steemit dimension: it incentivates the encyclopedism, in each of us :-)

Ah, would you have data about the "French" adjective?: is it related to a French patent, a region, a research institute, the fact that this device was (or is) commonly used in France...?