ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,978, issued on April 22, was assigned to VIAVI Solutions Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).
"Light pipe for spectroscopy" was invented by Curtis R. Hruska (Cloverdale, Calif.), Peng Zou (Ridgefield, Conn.), Benjamin F. Catching (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Marc K. Von Gunten (Novato, Calif.) and Valton Smith (Novato, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spectroscopic assembly may include a spectrometer. The spectrometer may include an illumination source to generate a light to illuminate a sample. The spectrometer may include a sensor to obtain a spectroscopic measurement based on light, reflected by the sample, from the light illuminating the sampl...