US Patent Issued to Photothermal Spectroscopy on July 29 for "Method and apparatus for fiber optic photothermal imaging and spectroscopy" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,778, issued on July 29, was assigned to Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for fiber optic photothermal imaging and spectroscopy" was invented by Craig Prater (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improvements in spectroscopy are disclosed herein that rely on the interaction of both an infrared beam and a probe beam with a sample. These beams are used in a pump-probe arrangement, with a fiber optic probe collecting the beams of infrared and probe radiation from the infrared source and delivering it to the sample. At least a portion of the beam of infrared radiation and the b...