US Patent Issued to Triad National Security on July 21 for "Portable spectroscopic analysis assembly" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,498, issued on July 21, was assigned to Triad National Security LLC (Los Alamos, N.M.).

"Portable spectroscopic analysis assembly" was invented by Samuel M. Clegg (Los Alamos, N.M.), Ronald K. Martinez (Santa Cruz, N.M.) and Kristy L. Nowak-Lovato (Los Alamos, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Portable spectroscopic analysis assemblies are disclosed. In an example, an apparatus comprises an analysis subassembly, a probe subassembly, a tether subassembly interconnecting the analysis subassembly and the probe subassembly, and a laser source. The analysis subassembly comprises a spectroscopy subassembly. The laser source is configured...