ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,979, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Rockefeller University (New York).

"Techniques for high-speed volumetric sampling" was invented by Alipasha Vaziri (Greenwich, Conn.) and Jeffrey Dakin Demas (Astoria, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiplexing module provided herein is configured to perform operations of receiving a plurality of laser pulses from a pulsed laser source; splitting each laser pulse into a plurality of beamlets; introducing a delay between each adjacent beamlet of the plurality of beamlets, such that the plurality of beamlets associated with a respective laser pulse of the plurality of laser pulses is ...