US Patent Issued on Oct. 28 for "Spectrophotometer comprising phononic MEMS structure for sensing absorptive fluid" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,190, issued on Oct. 28.

"Spectrophotometer comprising phononic MEMS structure for sensing absorptive fluid" was invented by William N. Carr (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spectrophotometer includes a photonic source and a photonic detector, wherein a photonic beam from the photonic source is directed through an absorptive or reflective fluid of interest into a photonic detector. In the illustrative embodiment, the photonic source and the photonic detector are disposed on separate micro-platforms that are formed from the same layer of semiconductor material. The micro-platforms are suspended by nanowires that, in ...