US Patent Issued to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE on Oct. 21 for "Optical particle characterization apparatus" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,341, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Silver Spring, Md.).

"Optical particle characterization apparatus" was invented by Daniel M. Murphy (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments in accordance with the present invention relate to an apparatus for optical characterization of aerosol particles, including a laser source; a beam splitter configured to split the laser into two orthogonally polarized optical beams, wherein one component of the orthogonally polarized optical beam is deflected from the second component of the polarized optical beam at ...