ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,632, issued on July 21, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Optical measurement device and optical measurement method" was invented by Hisanari Takahashi (Hamamatsu, Japan), Koyo Watanabe (Hamamatsu, Japan), Hiroshi Satozono (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Takashi Inoue (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical measurement device includes a light pulse source, a light separator unit, a wave synthesizer unit, an optical detection unit, and a measurement unit. The light pulse source outputs a plurality of light pulses having different temporal waveforms and different center wavelengths. The light sepa...