US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Carnegie Mellon University on May 6 for "High temperature near-field probe for sensing and energy harvesting applications based upon thermal emission" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,327, issued on May 6, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh) and Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh).

"High temperature near-field probe for sensing and energy harvesting applications based upon thermal emission" was invented by Paul Richard Ohodnicki (Allison Park, Pa.) and Sheng Shen (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A near-field probe (and associated method) compatible with near-infrared electromagnetic radiation and high temperature applications above 300deg C. (or 500deg C. in some applications) includes an optical waveguide and a photonic thermal emittin...