US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY on Dec. 23 for "Self-aligning optical acoustic sensors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,320, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Stanford, Calif.).

"Self-aligning optical acoustic sensors" was invented by Behrad Habib Afshar (Stanford, Calif.) and Michel J.F. Digonnet (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic sensor includes at least one optical waveguide configured to emit an optical beam, a substantially planar first substrate optically coupled to the at least one optical waveguide, and a substantially planar second substrate substantially parallel to the first substrate, affixed to the first substrate, and affixed to the at least one o...