US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona on Oct. 7 for "Apparatus and method to measure direction and polarization of electromagnetic waves" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,033, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Apparatus and method to measure direction and polarization of electromagnetic waves" was invented by Stanley Pau (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and devices are described that enable simultaneous measurement of the direction and polarization of electromagnetic waves. One example device includes a first, a second and a third detector, each configured to receive and measure an irradiance of an incoming electromagnetic radiation, and each are positioned such that their normal vectors poin...