US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Aug. 5 for "Optically super-resolved infrared impulse spectroscopy (OSIRIS)-a technique for high contrast chemical imaging of chemical composition" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,310, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Optically super-resolved infrared impulse spectroscopy (OSIRIS)-a technique for high contrast chemical imaging of chemical composition" was invented by Tyler Huffman (Alexandria, Va.), Robert Furstenberg (Burke, Va.), Chris Kendziora (Burke, Va.) and R. Andrew McGill (Lorton, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for spectroscopic imaging by illuminating a sample with a short infrared pulse, directing one or more probe beams to the sample, and measuri...