ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,289, issued on April 29, was assigned to Agilent Technologies LDA UK Ltd. (Cheshire, Great Britain).

"Raman analysis of pharmaceutical dosage forms" was invented by Pavel Matousek (Oxfordshire, Great Britain), Julia Griffen (Cheshire, Great Britain), Andrew Owen (Cheshire, Great Britain) and Lee Dowden (Cheshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus (10) for Raman spectral analysis of a sample (12), such as a pharmaceutical dosage form, are disclosed. Delivery optics (16) are used to deliver probe light to a delivery region (13) on the sample, and collection optics (20) are used to collect, from a collect...