ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,261, issued on April 29, was assigned to Lucid Scientific Inc. (Atlanta).
"Measurement of a dynamic system" was invented by Samuel Walker Inman (Atlanta), Richard Allen Bryan (Atlanta), Nicholas Quan (Richmond Hill, Ga.) and Daniel Bauen (Stone Mountain, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing measurements includes providing relative movement between a receptacle and a cover over a measurement interval comprising multiple non-overlapping time periods. A distance between the receptacle and the cover changes along a first axis over at least a portion of each time period. An apparatus for performing measurements includ...