US Patent Issued to Brown University on June 3 for "Compact optoelectronic device for noninvasive imaging" (Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,714, issued on June 3, was assigned to Brown University (Providence, R.I.).

"Compact optoelectronic device for noninvasive imaging" was invented by Arto Nurmikko (Providence, R.I.) and Ning Zhang (Providence, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a high density surface emitting laser array source, the high density surface emitting laser array source comprising a near infrared vertical cavity semiconductor laser (VCSEL) array that enables individual access to closely packed laser elements on a sub-microsecond timescale, a detector comprising a dynamic vision sensor having low latency, high dynamic range and ultralow pow...