US Patent Issued to Northrop Grumman Systems on Sept. 29 for "Optical accelerometer system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,126, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Optical accelerometer system" was invented by Vyacheslav Lebedev (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Steven Ryan Jefferts (Chatsworth, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example includes an optical accelerometer system. The system includes an optical cavity system comprising a variable optical cavity that propagates a first optical beam and a fixed optical cavity that propagates a second optical beam. The fixed optical cavity can have a fixed cavity length and the variable optical cavity can have a cavity length that changes in response to a...