US Patent Issued to IMEC VZW, Universiteit Gent on March 25 for "System and method for photoacoustic inspection of an object" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,361, issued on March 25, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium) and Universiteit Gent (Ghent, Belgium).

"System and method for photoacoustic inspection of an object" was invented by YanLu Li (Kessel-lo, Belgium) and Roeland Baets (Deinze, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure includes a system for photoacoustic inspection of an object. The system includes a broadband emission source configured to generate an emission beam, a direction apparatus including at least one spectrum splitter configured to split the emission beam into at least a first and a second component, the direction apparatus being configured to se...