US Patent Issued to Thermo Electron Scientific Instruments on May 27 for "Supercontinuum laser based web gauging system" (Wisconsin, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,558, issued on May 27, was assigned to Thermo Electron Scientific Instruments LLC (Madison, Wis.).

"Supercontinuum laser based web gauging system" was invented by Damian Ashmead (Middletown, Del.), John Magie Coffin (Blue Mounds, Wis.) and Francis Deck (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A web gauging system and methods of using the web gauging system are described. The web gauging system includes a supercontinuum Laser providing a light beam. A beam expander is configured to expand the light beam and provide an expanded beam to a sample illumination area. A detector unit configured to detect a sample light from the illumin...