US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on July 22 for "Methods and systems for non-destructive estimation of scattering particle size" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,512, issued on July 22, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Methods and systems for non-destructive estimation of scattering particle size" was invented by Seemantini Nadkarni (Boston) and Zeinab Hajjarian-Kashany (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for non-destructively estimating an average size of scattering particles in a sample, including: transmitting, using a coherent light source, polarized light to the sample; obtaining, using a detector, polarized light reflected from the sample, the polarized light comprising a parallel polarized component and a perpendicular polarized component; determining, ...