ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,700, issued on June 2, was assigned to Verity Instruments Inc. (Carrollton, Texas).

"Multimode configurable spectrometer" was invented by Larry Arlos Bullock (Carrollton, Texas), John D. Corless (Carrollton, Texas), Richard J. Daignault Jr. (Carrollton, Texas), Mark Anthony Meloni (Carrollton, Texas) and Mike Whelan (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides multimode configurable spectrometers, a method of operating a multimode configurable spectrometer, and an optical monitoring system. In one embodiment the multimode configurable spectrometer includes: (1) an optical sensor configured to receive an op...