ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,172, issued on June 17, was assigned to Institute of Energy, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center (Anhui, China).

"Method for adjusting laser path of terahertz near-field system" was invented by Wenbing Zhang (Hefei, China), Hongbo Cui (Hefei, China), Chengyao Peng (Hefei, China), Fengting Jiang (Hefei, China) and Zhenchun Yu (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adjusting laser path of terahertz near-field system, belonging to the field of terahertz near-field imaging. It mainly addresses the issues where an optical microscope cannot clearly observe the laser spot on the probe cantilever, and the laser pat...