ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,318, issued on March 25, was assigned to Mirico Ltd. (Didcot, Great Britain).
"Chirped laser dispersion spectrometer and method" was invented by James Hobby (East Sussex, Great Britain), Damien Weidmann (Berkshire, Great Britain) and Richard Kovacich (Oxfordshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a chirped laser dispersion spectrometer having two tunable lasers each with a bias current supply, a chirp signal source to provide a matching chirp pattern, a beam splitter to produce a single beam from the two first and second tunable lasers and active-phase locking means to render the two beams phase co...