US Patent Issued to OPTICS11 on Nov. 11 for "Optical sensing device for measuring deformation of a sample" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,743, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to OPTICS11 B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Optical sensing device for measuring deformation of a sample" was invented by Niek Rijnveld (Amsterdam), Grzegorz Gruca (Amsterdam), Kevin Bielawski (Amsterdam) and Massimiliano Berardi (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical sensing device includes a support with an aperture. The optical sensing device can removably hold a sample against the support around the aperture. Accordingly, a portion of the sample is free to deform through the aperture in response to a change in an environmental condition. An optical waveguide is fixedly arranged with respect t...