ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,967, issued on July 15, was assigned to SPACE AGE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Poquoson, Va.).
"Deployable micro-spectrometer bullets" was invented by Sang H. Choi (Poquoson, Va.) and Robert W. Moses (Poquoson, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tiny and portable micro-spectrometer deployable in a bullet-like form that is inexpensive to the point that it can even be disposable is described. The device is based on the micro-spectrometer that uses the Fresnel diffraction principle that allows a tiny implementation with a nanometer resolving power of spectral signal. A bullet-like micro-spectrometer has an integration of a super capacitor as a p...