US Patent Issued to SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 26 for "Method and apparatus for characterising an object" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,121, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Guangdong, China).

"Method and apparatus for characterising an object" was invented by Fucai Zhang (Guangdong, China) and Bingyang Wang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for characterising an object, including: providing, via a support plane, coherent incident radiation at the object at each of a plurality of radiation configurations, detecting, at a detector, an intensity of radiation scattered by the object for each radiation configuration, and determining, via an iterative process, an object transmission function associat...