ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,781, issued on July 29, was assigned to Rockley Photonics Ltd. (Altrincham, Great Britain).
"Deformable membrane for speckle mitigation" was invented by Alexander Fast (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Aaron L. Birkbeck (San Diego), Craig Gardner (Belmont, Mass.), Haydn Frederick Jones (London) and Benjamin Ver Steeg (Redlands, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system with a deformable membrane for speckle mitigation. In some embodiments, the system includes a laser for producing laser light; a photodetector for detecting the laser light after interaction of the laser light with a sample; and a silicon deformable membrane, for modulating ...