US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology on March 17 for "Chip-scale atomic beam generating systems" (Georgia, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,688, issued on March 17, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (Gaithersburg, Md.).

"Chip-scale atomic beam generating systems" was invented by Chandra Raman (Decatur, Ga.), Elizabeth Donley (Boulder, Colo.), John Kitching (Boulder, Colo.), Chao Li (Atlanta), Gabriela Martinez (Boulder, Colo.) and William McGehee (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a chip-scale atomic beam system comprising an atomic vapor source, a plurality of channels, and a propagation chamber. The atomic vapor source chamber c...