ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,700, issued on June 3, was assigned to Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH (Bremen, Germany).
"Method and device for processing two-dimensional optical spectra" was invented by Ayrat Murtazin (Bremen, Germany), Konstantin Ayzikov (Bremen, Germany), Sebastian Geisler (Bremen, Germany), Lothar Rottmann (Ganderkesee, Germany) and Alexander Makarov (Bremen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing two dimensional optical spectra, such as echelle spectra, is disclosed. The optical spectra comprise sections having a relatively high intensity separated by borders having a relatively low intensity. The optical spectra ...