ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,559, issued on May 6, was assigned to North University of China (Taiyuan, China).

"System of automatic adjustment of laser reflection path" was invented by Jun Liu (Taiyuan, China), Zongmin Ma (Taiyuan, China), Jun Xu (Taiyuan, China), Jun Tang (Taiyuan, China), Yunbo Shi (Taiyuan, China), Huanfei Wen (Taiyuan, China), Cheng Dong (Taiyuan, China) and Huiyun Wang (Taiyuan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system of automatic adjustment of a laser reflection path, comprising a central processing device, a driving device, a four-quadrant photodetector, a driving arm, a micro cantilever, a sample, a sample placing table, a light re...