US Patent Issued to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS on May 19 for "Electrometer system with Rydberg decay fluorescence detection" (California, Wisconsin, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,674, issued on May 19, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Electrometer system with Rydberg decay fluorescence detection" was invented by Eric A. Imhof (Albuquerque, N.M.), Steven Ryan Jefferts (Chatsworth, Calif.), Thad G. Walker (Middleton, Wis.) and Vyacheslav Lebedev (Redondo Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example includes an electrometer system. The system includes a sensor cell comprising an alkali metal vapor within. The system also includes an excitation beam system configured to provide at least one excitation optical beam through the sensor cell to excite the alkali metal at...