US Patent Issued to The George Washington University on Nov. 11 for "Optical probe for measuring wall-shear stress" (District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,939, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to The George Washington University (Washington).

"Optical probe for measuring wall-shear stress" was invented by Philippe M. Bardet (Washington), Peter D. Huck (Washington) and Charles Fort (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of this disclosure are directed to optical probes for collecting images of a region of interest for determining wall shear stress. The optical probe includes an imager with a line of sight and a light guide configured to steer light from a light source to the region of interest. The optical probe includes an objective configured to focus light reflected off of...