ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,621, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Spectral compression system and methods of using same" was invented by Andrew Marc Weiner (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Karthik Vijay Annur Myilswamy (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating spectrally compressed photons from broadband emitted photon pulses. The system can include an input coupling having a first coupling ratio and an output coupling having a second coupling ratio. The first coupling ratio is configurable and the second coupling ratio is fixed. A cavity can be connected to the inpu...