US Patent Issued to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for annealing samples" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,690, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (Albany, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for annealing samples" was invented by Fatemeh Shahedipour-Sandvik (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Vincent Meyers (Albany, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for annealing samples. The system includes a thermal shielding enclosure including a cavity, with a first surface, a second surface, a microwave emitter, a sensor and a control system. Additionally, the control system can adjust operational characteristics of the microwave emitter in response to determining whether the measured temp...