US Patent Issued to University of Houston System on Oct. 7 for "Spin-resolved ultrafast electron diffraction" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,117, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to University of Houston System (Houston).

"Spin-resolved ultrafast electron diffraction" was invented by Byron Freelon (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and system for ultrafast electron diffraction is disclosed. The electron diffraction device includes an electron source, anode, and magnetic lens. A laser probe pulse interacts with electrons from the electron source to generate an electron probe pulse that passes through the anode and diffracts from a sample yielding a diffraction pattern. Data is configured to be collected at one instance using the diffraction pattern to yield a fi...