ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,880, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Microscopic raman spectroscopy device" was invented by Tomoki Sasayama (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microscopic Raman spectroscopy device includes laser oscillators (excitation light sources) that emit excitation laser lights (excitation lights) of different wavelengths, a spectrometer that uses a diffraction grating to disperse Raman scattering light emitted from a sample by irradiation with the excitation laser light from the laser oscillator, and a CCD detector that detects and photoelectrically converts the Raman scattering light dispersed b...