ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,537, issued on June 9, was assigned to ColdQuanta Inc. (Boulder, Colo.).
"Gradient matter-wave gradiometry" was invented by Dana Zachary Anderson (Boulder, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each atom in a population of atoms can be characterized by a probability density distribution (PDD). Using a shaken-lattice technique, each PDD is split into a pair of sub-PDDs. The sub-PDDs of a pair are propagated along different paths to a common endpoint of the paths, resulting in a matter-wave interference pattern that encodes a net phase between the paths, e.g., due to differential effects associated with a gravity gradient. The matter-wav...