US Patent Issued to Occuity on Jan. 13 for "Optical measurement apparatus and method of rapid measurement" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,597, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Occuity Ltd. (London).

"Optical measurement apparatus and method of rapid measurement" was invented by James Reynolds (Gloucestershire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical measurement apparatus (100) combining confocal measurement and low-coherence interferometric measurement comprising: a Fourier domain interferometric measurement subsystem (104) comprising a spectrometer (110) operably coupled to a reference arm (136), a measurement arm (138) and a source of electromagnetic radiation (106) via an optical coupler (108), the spectrometer (110) comprising a spectral signal ge...