US Patent Issued to Trustees of Boston University on Aug. 19 for "Pixel-diversity nanoparticle detection by interferometric reflectance imaging sensor" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,721, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Trustees of Boston University (Boston).

"Pixel-diversity nanoparticle detection by interferometric reflectance imaging sensor" was invented by M. Selim Unlu (Newton, Mass.), Iris Celebi (Allston, Mass.) and Mete Aslan (Brighton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of inventive concepts described herein relate to an interferometric reflectance imaging system. The system can include an imaging sensor including pixels that are preferentially sensitive to a plurality of light components; an illumination source configured to emit illumination light along an illumination path, the illuminati...