ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,165, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Diamond magneto-optical sensor" 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 including a color center with an electronic spin, and a reflecting surface that reflects excitation light propagated through an optical system into the diamond, wherein the reflecting surface reflects light radiated from the color center excited by the excitation light and condens...