ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,667, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to NATIONAL YANG MING CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Measuring device and measuring method" was invented by Chih-Wei Luo (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yi-Chen Liu (Dongshan Township, Taiwan) and Tien-Tien Yeh (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical pulse measuring method measuring an optical pulse generated from a pulse light source is provided. The method includes: splitting the optical pulse and then focusing them at a measuring point, so as to generate gas plasma by the autocorrelation of the split optical pulses; receiving the sound signal from the gas plasma and generate a ...