Patents by Inventor Michel Orrit

Michel Orrit has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and device for photothermal imaging tiny particles immersed in a given medium
    Patent number: 6756591
    Abstract: A method and device for photothermal imaging tiny metal particles which are immersed in a given medium like a living cell deposited onto a transparent glass slide. The given medium and immersed tiny metal particles are illuminated through separate phase reference laser beam and sensitive probe laser beam, with the sensitive probe laser beam including a heating laser beam undergoing through impingement on the given medium slight phase changes induced by photothermal effect due to a local heating, in the absence of any substantial phase changes to the phase reference laser beam. Illuminating is performed by focusing the separate phase reference and sensitive probe laser beam through the transparent glass slide at a given depth within the given medium and a transmitted phase reference laser beam and a transmitted sensitive probe laser beam undergoing the slight phase changes are generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignees: Centre National de la Recherche, Universite de Bordeaux I
    Inventors: Brahim Lounis, Michel Orrit, Philippe Tamarat, David Boyer, Laurent Cognet