ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,650, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (Albany, N.Y.).

"System and method for crystal-to-channel coupling" was invented by Andrew Labella (Stony Brook, N.Y.), Amirhossein Goldan (Stony Brook, N.Y.), Eric Peterson (Stony Brook, N.Y.) and Wei Zhao (East Setauket, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiplexing scheme, a system for reading out signals from an optical sensor array, particle detection devices and systems are provided. For example, the optical sensor array may comprise plurality of optical sensors arranged in rows and columns. In the multiplexing scheme, a re...