US Patent Issued to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia on Sept. 23 for "Speckle-based imaging diffuser and method for controllably fabricating same" (Colorado, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,346, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Speckle-based imaging diffuser and method for controllably fabricating same" was invented by Amber Lynn Dagel (Lafayette, Colo.), Andrew Eugene Hollowell (Albuquerque, N.M.), Patrick Sean Finnegan (Albuquerque, N.M.), Kyle R. Thompson (Albuquerque, N.M.), Roger Derek West (Albuquerque, N.M.), Johnathan Mulcahy-Stanislawczyk (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Ryan Nicolas Goodner (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mask for use in a speckle-based x-ray or neutron phase contrast imaging system and methods of ma...