US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY on March 18 for "Three-dimensional continuous scanning laser vibrometry for 3D or in-plane vibration measurements" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,496, issued on March 18, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY (Baltimore).

"Three-dimensional continuous scanning laser vibrometry for 3D or in-plane vibration measurements" was invented by Weidong Zhu (Ellicott City, Md.) and Ke Yuan (Halethorpe, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a three-dimensional (3D) continuously scanning laser Doppler vibrometer (CSLDV) system that contains three laser heads with two scan mirrors for each head and a controller, to conduct full-field scanning of a plate-like or beam-like structure under sinusoidal excitations to measure its 3D vibrations and...