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Search Patents by Amy Mensch

Patents listed here reflect only technologies patented from FY 2018-present. To view all of NIST's patented technologies, visit the NIST pages on the Federal Laboratory Consortium website.

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Photoacoustic Soot Measurement System for Cleaner Engines

NIST Inventors

Amy Mensch , Ryan Falkenstein-Smith and Thomas Cleary

This invention introduces a photoacoustic measurement system that detects soot deposition in engines. It works by irradiating soot deposits with pulsed electromagnetic radiation, causing rapid expansion that generates an acoustic pressure wave. The system then senses the pressure wave using an

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