US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS, Kyoto University on Sept. 22 for "Optically pumped magnetometer and magnetoencephalograph" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,838, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan).

"Optically pumped magnetometer and magnetoencephalograph" was invented by Takahiro Moriya (Hamamatsu, Japan), Takenori Oida (Hamamatsu, Japan), Akinori Saito (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 sensitivity region inside the cell in a first direction, a probe light incidence unit causing prob...