US Patent Issued to Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, for and on behalf of the University of Alabama in Huntsville on March 31 for "Systems and methods for measuring transient surface reflectivity of an optically excited sample" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,894, issued on March 31, was assigned to Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, for and on behalf of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Systems and methods for measuring transient surface reflectivity of an optically excited sample" was invented by Lingze Duan (Madison, Ala.) and Hemang Jani (Huntsville, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for measuring the surface reflectivity of an excited sample. Such systems may be useful in understanding the transient processes created when materials are energetically excited and how they subsequ...