ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,089, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften e.V (Munich).
"Method and apparatus for creating a microscopic sample image of a molecular vibrational response of a sample" was invented by Hanieh Fattahi (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microscopic imaging method for creating a microscopic sample image (1A) of a sample (1) comprises the steps of arranging the sample (1) on a sampling crystal (10); irradiating the sample (1) with excitation laser pulses (2, 3) and generating sample response pulses (4) with a sample response field as a result of an interaction of the excitation...