ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,239, issued on April 29, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.), The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchotron DESY (Hamburg, Germany).

"Integrated optical field sampling platform" was invented by Marco Turchetti (Cambridge, Mass.), Mina Bionta (Somerville, Mass.), Felix Ritzkowsky (Hamburg, Germany), Yujia Yang (Vaud, Switzerland), Dario Cattozzo Mor (Desenzano del Garda, Italy), William Putnam (Martinez, Calif.), Franz X. Kaertner (Hamburg, Germany), Karl K. Berggren (Arlington, Mass.) and Phillip Donald Keathley (Natick, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademar...