US Patent Issued to RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS on Oct. 20 for "Picosecond laser-driven plasma x-ray source" (Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,365, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS Corp. (Barrington, R.I.).

"Picosecond laser-driven plasma x-ray source" was invented by Christoph Rose-Petruck (Barrington, R.I.) and Daniel DeCiccio (Providence, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser-produced plasma X-ray system includes a metal target, a laser pulse emitter producing laser pulses in the range of 150 fs to 25 ps, prepulses nanoseconds before the main pulse, and focusing optics directing the laser pulses onto the target surface, forming a laser-driven plasma that emits X-rays."

The patent was filed on Aug. 30, 2023, under Application No. 18/458,603....