ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,106, issued on June 16, was assigned to Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan City, China).

"Method and apparatus for measuring inner surface and transition curved surface contour of micropore" was invented by Wenlong Lu (Wuhan City, China) and Yunquan Wu (Wuhan City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for measuring an inner surface and a transition curved surface contour of a micropore are provided. The apparatus includes three independent optical paths, a spectrometer and a processing unit. The three optical paths use a fiber-reflecting prism-dispersive metalens structure. By adjusting the...