US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on Dec. 9 for "Spectroscopy device incorporating a mid-infrared laser" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,992, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Spectroscopy device incorporating a mid-infrared laser" was invented by Mathieu Fradet (Pasadena, Calif.), Ryan M. Briggs (Altadena, Calif.) and Kazi M. Islam (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a spectroscopy device incorporating a mid-infrared laser. In one particular embodiment a spectroscopy device is provided including: a substrate; a single mode laser positioned on the substrate; a single mode detector positioned opposite to the single mode laser on the substrate. A gap is formed between the single mode...