US Patent Issued to INSTITUT NATIONAL D'OPTIQUE on March 18 for "Terahertz imaging system with evanescent-wave coupling" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,133, issued on March 18, was assigned to INSTITUT NATIONAL D'OPTIQUE (Quebec, Canada).

"Terahertz imaging system with evanescent-wave coupling" was invented by Michel Doucet (Quebec, Canada), Alain Bergeron (Quebec, Canada), Francis Genereux (Quebec, Canada), Hassane Oulachgar (Quebec, Canada) and Marc Terroux (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system that includes an image sensor and imaging optics is provided. The image sensor has a sensing surface and it captures images of a scene. The imaging optics is optically coupled to the image sensor and is configured to form the images of the scene onto the sensing ...