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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 1978
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1977
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael A West, Orpington, GB;
Assignee:
Applied Photophysics Limited, London, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ; G01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2504 / ; 250226 ;
Abstract
In characterizing or identifying an article which is provided with luminescent material, excitation radiation is directed at the article to cause emission from the luminescent material and the intensity of emitted radiation at different wavelengths is compared by directing the emitted radiation to photodetectors through a plurality of optical systems having respective filters of different wavelength transmission and comparing the modified signal level from one photodetector with the signal level from another photodetector.