ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,718, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to INCOHERENT VISION INC. (Ontario, Canada).

"Structured wave generator and device for diffracting a neutron beam into a structured wave" was invented by Dusan Sarenac (Waterloo, Canada) and Dmitry Pushin (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described a structured wave generator generally having a neutron source generating a neutron beam having a propagation axis and a lateral coherence length extending perpendicular to the propagation axis; and a substrate spaced-apart from the neutron source, the substrate having an array of phase gratings distributed on the substrate for receiving t...