US Patent Issued to DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT-UND RAUMFAHRT on Dec. 9 for "Optical device having a trigger unit, trigger unit, and method for capturing infrared absorption spectra" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,993, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT-UND RAUMFAHRT E.V. (Bonn, Germany).

"Optical device having a trigger unit, trigger unit, and method for capturing infrared absorption spectra" was invented by Christoph Kolbl (Hardthausen, Germany) and Lisa Dreier (Hardthausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device includes a tunable laser for repeatedly irradiating a sample with laser light as wavelength scans over a defined wavelength range, a trigger unit and a data acquisition unit. The laser outputs at least a first trigger signal and a second trigger signal. The first trigger signal outputs a te...