US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Electric Industries on Feb. 17 for "Diamond magneto-optical sensor and diamond magneto-optical sensor system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,958, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Diamond magneto-optical sensor and diamond magneto-optical sensor system" was invented by Hiroshige Deguchi (Kyoto, Japan), Natsuo Tatsumi (Kyoto, Japan), Tsukasa Hayashi (Kyoto, Japan) and Yoshiki Nishibayashi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diamond magneto-optical sensor includes: a diamond that includes a color center with an electronic spin and is irradiated with excitation light, and an irradiation unit that irradiates the diamond with the excitation light of the color center and electromagnetic waves for magnetic resonance,...