ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,513, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO (s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).
"Acoustic microscope system and method for measuring an object disposed in a medium" was invented by Paul Louis Maria Joseph Van Neer (Bergschenhoek, Netherlands), Maurits Sebastiaan Van Der Heiden ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands) and Michiel Peter Oderwald (Delft, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic microscope system is described that includes a container for holding a medium with an object to be measured. Compressional waves are generated by a probe into the medium. The comp...