ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,180, issued on March 17, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Interferometric system with deep learning algorithm to process two interferograms" was invented by Rongguang Liang (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices and systems for measuring surface roughness and surface shape of an object are described. An example interferometric system includes a collimator and a first and a second light sources with different spectral ranges and different coherence lengths. The system selectively allows light from one of the light sources to reach the collimator,...