US Patent Issued to Photothermal Spectroscopy on July 29 for "Method and apparatus for high performance wide field photothermal imaging and spectroscopy" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,401, issued on July 29, was assigned to Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for high performance wide field photothermal imaging and spectroscopy" was invented by Craig Prater (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Derek Decker (Carmel, Calif.) and David Grigg (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for infrared analysis over a wide field area of a sample is disclosed herein that relies on interference of non-diffractively separated beams of light containing image data corresponding to the sample, as well as a photothermal effect on the sample."

The patent was filed on Feb. 1, 2021...