US Patent Issued to TOKYO METROPOLITAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITY on June 23 for "Water vapor distribution measurement apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,368, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOKYO METROPOLITAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITY Corp. (Tokyo).

"Water vapor distribution measurement apparatus" was invented by Naoto Kakuta (Tokyo), Rintaro Takagi (Tokyo), Shintaro Ozawa (Tokyo) and Takayoshi Kaneko (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water vapor distribution measurement apparatus comprises: a light source that emits near-infrared light; a near-infrared light measurement device that is located across a measurement space from the light source and that measures the near-infrared light; an optical system that expands and applies the near-infrared light emitted from the light source in ...