ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,897, issued on March 31, was assigned to EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).

"Optical-fiber Raman photometer, construction method therefor and application thereof" was invented by Yang Tian (Shanghai) and Zhichao Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical-fiber Raman photometer. The optical-fiber Raman photometer comprises: a light source portion; a scanning system, wherein the core of the scanning system is based on a laser confocal unit, the scanning system comprises a first filter, a second filter, a first reflector, a second reflector, a scanner and an objective lens, and an excitation light is generated from a...