ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,987, issued on April 22, was assigned to INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE (Bangalore, India).

"Homogenized coherent excitation of a sample for determining molecular structure" was invented by Siva Umapathy (Bangalore, India), Sanchita Sil (Bangalore, India), Dipak Kumbhar (Bangalore, India) and Srividya Kumar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method for homogenized coherent excitation of a sample for determining molecular structure. The method includes selecting a monochromatic coherent light, homogenizing the monochromatic coherent light; irradiating the sample with the homogenized monochromatic lig...