US Patent Issued to Honeywell Aerospace US on Nov. 3 for "Generating local cryogenic region with laser cooling to enable circuit operation" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,010, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Honeywell Aerospace US LLC (Phoenix).

"Generating local cryogenic region with laser cooling to enable circuit operation" was invented by Chad Fertig (Roseville, Minn.) and Chad Hoyt (Roseville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for optical cooling comprises a substrate and a first waveguide supported by the substrate, with the first waveguide configured to provide optical cooling by fluorescence up-conversion. A first optical fiber is coupled to the first waveguide, with the first optical fiber configured to deliver cooling light to the first waveguide. A second waveguide is supported...