US Patent Issued to Honeywell Aerospace US on Sept. 8 for "Ring resonator magnetometer with absorbent material" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,162, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Honeywell Aerospace US LLC (Phoenix).

"Ring resonator magnetometer with absorbent material" was invented by Neal Eldrich Solmeyer (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments are directed to, but not limited to, a magnetometer comprising a ring resonator and an absorbent material disposed in the ring resonator. The absorbent material is configured to absorb pump light propagating in the ring resonator when excited. By absorbing the pump light, the intensity of the output probe light from the ring resonator decreases, which is utilized to determine one or more characteristics...