US Patent Issued to II-VI Delaware on July 21 for "PCSEL magnetometer" (Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,592, issued on July 21, was assigned to II-VI Delaware Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"PCSEL magnetometer" was invented by Anna Tatarczak (Wilmington, Del.), Christopher Kocot (Wilmington, Del.), Young-Kai Chen (Wilmington, Del.) and Giovanni Barbarossa (Wilmington, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetometer includes a resonant atomic medium, a photonic crystal surface emitting laser (PCSEL), and a light detector. The resonant atomic medium includes color centers or other dopants that form vacancies that fluoresce light when excited by an excitation light having an excitation wavelength. Characteristics of the fluoresced light are ...