US Patent Issued to Trustees of Boston University on March 31 for "Stimulated Raman photothermal microscope with optical parametric amplifier source" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,885, issued on March 31, was assigned to Trustees of Boston University (Boston).

"Stimulated Raman photothermal microscope with optical parametric amplifier source" was invented by Ji-Xin Cheng (Newton, Mass.) and Yifan Zhu (Allston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stimulated Raman photothermal (SRP) microscope for imaging a sample. A first optical source without an optical resonator emits a pump beam. A second optical source emits an intensity-modulated Stokes beam. The Stokes beam is combined with the pump beam to form a combined beam. The combined beam is directed to the sample to induce a thermal effect caused by the stim...