US Patent Issued to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE on Aug. 12 for "Direct digital chirp synthesizer and generating a chirped optical frequency comb" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,532, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Gaithersburg, Md.).

"Direct digital chirp synthesizer and generating a chirped optical frequency comb" was invented by David Alexander Long (Bethesda, Md.) and Benjamin James Reschovsky (Cabin John, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a direct digital chirp synthesizer for generating a chirped optical frequency comb that includes: a direct digital synthesizer that receives a repetition frequency signal from a delay generator, receives a clock frequency from a frequency converter, produces a radi...