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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2014
Applicant:
Sri Rama Prasanna Pavani, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventor:
Sri Rama Prasanna Pavani, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Exnodes Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/00 (2006.01); G01N 21/88 (2006.01); G01N 21/95 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/8806 (2013.01); G01N 21/9501 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for illuminating a surface, comprising: providing a reflective layer around said surface; directing an electromagnetic beam to be incident on said layer; aligning said layer, said beam, and said surface so that said beam undergoes a plurality of reflections on said layer for illuminating a predetermined region of said surface, whereby the size of said region is larger than the size of said beam, and the intensity of illumination on said region is higher than the value obtained by multiplying the intensity of said beam and the ratio of the size of said beam to the size of said region.