A patent has been submitted by the University of Aveiro: Hybrid near-field scanning microwave microscope, (A. Tselev, N. Vyshatko, and L. Cupido), INPI # PT118063A, EPO # WO2023248000A1 (2023); https://register.epo.org/application?number=EP22743572. The status of this patent is still pending.

This invention is featured at the EC Innovation Radar platform under the title “Novel in-line quality control tools” (https://innovation-radar.ec.europa.eu/innovation/48752) as associated with the M3DLoC project.