US Patent Issued to Wasatch Photonics on July 21 for "Identifying substances stored in containers utilizing a portable Raman probe" (American, Irish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,497, issued on July 21, was assigned to Wasatch Photonics Inc. (Logan, Utah).

"Identifying substances stored in containers utilizing a portable Raman probe" was invented by David John Creasey (Dublin), Elroy Louis Pearson (Clarkston, Utah), Jonathan Mark Faircloth (Morrisville, N.C.) and Dieter Bingemann (Wiesbaden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a portable Raman probe that uses axicon lenses ("axicons"), grating axicons ("graxicons"), and other optical elements to collect spectra from substances behind non-opaque barriers using off-axis techniques. The portable Raman probe can also include a...