US Patent Issued to POSTECH RESEARCH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION on July 7 for "Tip-enhanced spectroscopy" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,746, issued on July 7, was assigned to POSTECH RESEARCH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (Pohang-si, South Korea).

"Tip-enhanced spectroscopy" was invented by Kyoung-Duck Park (Pohang-si, South Korea) and Yeonjeong Koo (Pohang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tip-enhanced spectroscopy may include a substrate on which liquid containing an analyte is to be positioned, a tip extending from a fixed end to a free end adjacent to a location for the analyte, and a vibration source configured to harmonically vibrate the tip based on a preset natural frequency. The preset natural frequency may be a natural frequency of a tun...