ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,694, issued on June 3, was assigned to TECHNION RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION Ltd. (Haifa, Israel) and NRC SOREQ (Yavne, Israel).

"Homodyne time-domain acousto-optic imaging for low-gain photodetectors" was invented by Amir Rozental (Haifa, Israel), Ahiad Levi (Haifa, Israel), Yoav Hazan (Haifa, Israel) and Aner Lev (Modiin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser system for acousto-optics imaging is disclosed. The system comprises: a continuous wave laser source; a first beam splitter configured to split a laser emitted by the continuous wave laser source into a lasing beam and a reference beam; a lasing optical fiber diffusi...