ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,837, issued on March 31.
"Optical system for reference switching" was invented by Mark Alan Arbore (Los Altos, Calif.), Gary Shambat (San Francisco) and Matthew A. Terrel (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining one or more properties of a sample are disclosed. The systems and methods disclosed can be capable of measuring along multiple locations and can reimage and resolve multiple optical paths within the sample. The system can be configured with one-layer or two-layers of optics suitable for a compact system. The optics can be simplified to reduce the number and complexity of the coated...