ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,915, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to MICRO-EPSILON Optronic GmbH (Langebrueck, Germany).
"Spectrometer, distance measuring system, and method for operating a spectrometer" was invented by Tobias Otto (Langebrueck, Germany), Alexander Haussmann (Hoerlitz, Germany) and Christoph Grueber (Dresden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spectrometer with a lens, a dispersive element, and a detector, wherein a measuring light guided onto the lens is projected by way of the lens onto the dispersive element, is reflected back to the lens by the dispersive element in a spectrally dispersed manner, and is guided onto the detector by way ...