ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,319, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to RedShift BioAnalytics Inc. (Boxborough, Mass.).
"Matched optical filter" was invented by Jinhong Kim (Burlington, Mass.) and Dennis Merrill (Burlington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In illustrative embodiments, matched optical filters, and methods and systems for using matched optical filters for acquiring infra-red transmission spectra of liquid analytes in very highly absorbing reference solutions are disclosed herein. The matched optical filters compensate for the very high absorbance of the reference solution by filtering out at least a portion of coherent light from a tunable infra...