US Patent Issued to INNOVATION ACADEMY FOR PRECISION MEASUREMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, CAS on July 21 for "Highly charged nickel ion optical clock and its implementation" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,820, issued on July 21, was assigned to INNOVATION ACADEMY FOR PRECISION MEASUREMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, CAS (Wuhan, China).

"Highly charged nickel ion optical clock and its implementation" was invented by Hua Guan (Wuhan, China), Shaolong Chen (Wuhan, China), Zhiqiang Zhou (Wuhan, China), Guosheng Zhang (Wuhan, China), Yao Huang (Wuhan, China) and Kelin Gao (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a highly charged Nickel ion optical clock and its implementation method. It uses Ni12+ ions as the clock's reference system, which provides superior anti-interference capabilities and measurement pre...