US Patent Issued to TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT WIEN on Feb. 24 for "Method and apparatus for determining optical properties of a sample material" (German, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,539, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT WIEN (Vienna).

"Method and apparatus for determining optical properties of a sample material" was invented by Bernhard Lendl (Vienna), Bernhard Schmauss (Theisseil, Germany) and Matthias Bar (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining optical properties of a sample material includes: determining a first intensity of light in a first polarization state that was reflected by the sample material; determining a second intensity of the light in a second polarization state that was reflected by the sample material; forming the ratio between the fi...