ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,554, issued on May 27, was assigned to KEYENCE Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Laser-induced breakdown spectroscope" was invented by Hayato Ohba (Osaka, Japan), Kenichiro Hirose (Osaka, Japan) and Ryosuke Kondo (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A change in a substance in a depth direction of an analyte is easily estimated. An analysis and observation device includes: a library holding section that holds a substance library in which a substance is associated with a type of an element constituting the substance and a content of the element; and a component analysis section that estimates a type of an element constituting a substance ...