US Patent Issued to Honeywell Aerospace US on Sept. 22 for "Techniques for atomic magnetometers and atomic magnetic gradiometers" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,835, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Honeywell Aerospace US LLC (Phoenix).

"Techniques for atomic magnetometers and atomic magnetic gradiometers" was invented by Argyrios Dellis (Plymouth, Minn.) and Chad Fertig (Roseville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Size, weight, and cost of an atomic magnetic sensor vacuum chamber, and thus an atomic magnetometer and/or an atomic magnetic gradiometer, is reduced by using at least one photonic integrated circuit (PIC). The at least one PIC is configured to receive an optical signal, e.g., from a laser, and to distribute the optical signal to at least one set of two or more grating cou...