US Patent Issued to Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce on Feb. 3 for "Spatio-temporal profilometer and performing time-resolved spatial profilometry for producing a uniform light profile" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,051, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Gaithersburg, Md.).

"Spatio-temporal profilometer and performing time-resolved spatial profilometry for producing a uniform light profile" was invented by Gregory Alan Cooksey (Gaithersburg, Md.), Paul Nathan Patrone (Washington Grove, Md.), Matthew DiSalvo (Gaithersburg, Md.) and Jalal Sadeghi (Gaithersburg, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spatio-temporal profilometer performs time-resolved spatial profilometry and includes a substrate, a tapered optical collimator waveguide, a fluid channel, and a ligh...