ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,010, issued on June 23, was assigned to ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS Ltd. (Dublin).
"Spectroscopy using time-resolved elastic and Raman scattering" was invented by Bernd Wittner (Pfaffikon, Switzerland), Jean-Christophe Blancon (Galgenen, Switzerland) and Paolo Livi (Birmensdorf, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the spatially-resolved probing of bio logical tissue (102) comprises the steps of emitting, by means of at least one light source (106), a series of light pulses into the tissue and of measuring, by means of a plurality of light detectors (108), a plurality of time-resolved responses to the light pulses s...