US Patent Issued to Elta Systems on April 21 for "Light modulated optically pumped magnetometer system and method" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,693, issued on April 21, was assigned to Elta Systems Ltd. (Ashdod, Israel).

"Light modulated optically pumped magnetometer system and method" was invented by Igor Shcherback (Beer Sheva, Israel) and Dmitriy Tokar (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical magnetometer system and method for operation thereof are described. The optical magnetometer system comprises: at least one light source emitting one or more illumination beams and scanning frequency of illumination beams over a selected range; at least one vapor cell having alkali atoms positioned within path of the illumination beam; a detection unit position ...