US Patent Issued to NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY on March 18 for "Scanning based THz nearfield imaging device" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,193, issued on March 18, was assigned to NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Scanning based THz nearfield imaging device" was invented by Wei-Chih Wang (Sammamish, Wash.), Karthikraj Muthuramalingam (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Fiona Marie Wang (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a simple, portable, real-time, and in vivo THz imaging device for imaging a target, e.g., a tooth in the subject. Moreover, the scanning based THz imaging device is much sufficiently sensitive as compared with the common X-ray imaging device. Therefore, the scanning based THz imaging device has the potential to operate in the density ...