US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS, Kyoto University on Sept. 15 for "Optically pumped magnetometer and magnetoencephalograph" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,856, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan).

"Optically pumped magnetometer and magnetoencephalograph" was invented by Akinori Saito (Hamamatsu, Japan), Takenori Oida (Hamamatsu, Japan), Takahiro Moriya (Hamamatsu, Japan), Motohiro Suyama (Hamamatsu, Japan), Yosuke Ito (Kyoto, Japan) and Hiroyuki Ueda (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optically pumped magnetometer includes a cell, a pump light incidence unit causing pump light to be incident on a plurality of sensitivity regions inside the cell in a first direction, a probe light incidence uni...