US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on May 26 for "Integrated photonics gyroscope with common intensity modulation" (Arizona, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,290, issued on May 26, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Integrated photonics gyroscope with common intensity modulation" was invented by Jianfeng Wu (Tucson, Ariz.), Tiequn Qiu (Glendale, Ariz.), Matthew Wade Puckett (Phoenix) and Steven Tin (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonics gyroscope comprises a laser and a common intensity modulation unit that outputs an intensity modulated beam, split into a CCW beam having a first power level and a CW beam having a second power level. A first phase modulator (PA) receives the CCW beam, and a second PA receives the CW beam. A variable optical a...