US Patent Issued to WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY on April 8 for "Reversible polar decomposition method for backscattering Mueller matrix" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,722, issued on April 8, was assigned to WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (Zhejiang, China).

"Reversible polar decomposition method for backscattering Mueller matrix" was invented by Min Xu (Wenzhou, China), Zhineng Xie (Wenzhou, China) and Weihao Lin (Wenzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reciprocal polar decomposition for a backscattering Mueller matrices, including the following steps: step 1, according to the reciprocity of forward light path and backward light path, transforming the Mueller matrix M of backscattering into a symmetric matrix QM; step 2, obtaining a diattenuator matrix MD1 by a matrix QMG; step 3, obtaining eig...