US Patent Issued to Digital Harmonic on Nov. 4 for "System and method for measuring low-noise vibrational spectra" (Maryland, West Virginia, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,013, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Digital Harmonic LLC (Ellicott City, Md.).

"System and method for measuring low-noise vibrational spectra" was invented by Paul Reed Smith (Annapolis, Md.), William G. Nelson (Cockeysville, Md.), Shane G. W. Morris (Baltimore), Sandor Szalay (Baltimore), Jonathan B. Coulter (Baltimore), Frederick M. Slay (Okatie, S.C.) and Eric K. Pritchard (Berkeley Springs, W.va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device includes a low-noise illumination source, a support device, an ultra low-noise detector, an analog-to-digital converter, and a controller. The low-noise illumination source is configured...