US Patent Issued to Trustees of Boston University on Aug. 12 for "Apparatus and method for microsecond-scale mid-infrared energy deposition (MIRED) spectroscopy and microscopy" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,838, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Trustees of Boston University (Boston).

"Apparatus and method for microsecond-scale mid-infrared energy deposition (MIRED) spectroscopy and microscopy" was invented by Ji-Xin Cheng (Newton, Mass.) and Jiaze Yin (Malden, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spectroscopy and microscopy system and method include a source of pulsed infrared light generating pulsed infrared excitation light for exciting a sample, such that the pulsed infrared light selectively heats the sample by absorption of the pulsed infrared light and allows the sample to cool. A source of probe light generates probe light fo...