US Patent Issued to Block Engineering on June 24 for "QCL spectroscopy system and applications therefor" (Massachusetts, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,225, issued on June 24, was assigned to Block Engineering LLC (Southborough, Mass.).

"QCL spectroscopy system and applications therefor" was invented by Petros Kotidis (Framingham, Mass.), Erik Deutsch (Brookline, Mass.), Ninghui Zhu (Winchester, Mass.) and Daniel J. Cavicchio Jr. (Vero Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spectroscopy system comprising at least two laser modules, each of the laser modules including a laser cavity, a quantum cascade gain chip for amplifying light within the laser cavity, and a tuning element for controlling a wavelength of light generated by the modules. Combining optics are used to combine t...