ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,646, issued on July 1, was assigned to ASOCIACION CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION COOPERATIVA EN NANOCIENCIAS "CIC NANOGUNE" (San Sebastian, Spain).

"Combined spectroscopy system including Raman and ATR-FTIR" was invented by Andreas Seifert (San Sebastian, Spain) and Gajendra Pratap Singh (San Sebastian, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System for simultaneous measurement Raman and mid-infrared absorption signals from a sample, the system comprising an ATR crystal adapted for holding a sample thereon, at least one Raman excitation light source for Raman excitation, at least one FTIR excitation light source for FTIR excitation, at least on...