ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,800, issued on March 31, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Stability enhanced resonator fiber optic gyro (RFOG)" was invented by Glen A. Sanders (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Marc Smiciklas (Phoenix), Matthew Wade Puckett (Phoenix) and Tiequn Qiu (Glendale, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided that includes combining a light wave from a master laser with a light wave from a first slave laser to produce a first signal including a first beat note signal, detecting the first signal, providing the first signal to a first mixer in a feedback path of a first optical phase lock loop, receiving a s...