US Patent Issued to NEC on June 2 for "Atomic oscillator, control method, and control device, incorporation by reference" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,123, issued on June 2, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Atomic oscillator, control method, and control device, incorporation by reference" was invented by Takahiro Fujisaku (Tokyo), Sota Kagami (Tokyo) and Kenta Matsumoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An atomic oscillator of the present disclosure includes: a gas cell in which alkali metal atoms are encapsulated; a light generator that applies an irradiation light having at least two different frequency components to the gas cell; a light detector that detects a transmitted light having transmitted by the gas cell; and a controller that determines a resonance frequency of t...