ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,460, issued on July 29, was assigned to JASCO Corp. (Tokyo).
"Fourier transform infrared spectrometer" was invented by Tomohiro Katsumata (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Sugiyama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR) includes: an infrared light source; an interferometer; a semiconductor laser for position reference of a movable mirror thereof, and a computer that performs Fourier transformation to a detected signal of an infrared interference wave from a sample to calculate a spectrum based on a memorized wavelength of the semiconductor laser and a detected value of a laser interference wave by a ...