US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY on April 14 for "Fiber optic gyroscope with optical gating for spike suppression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,595, issued on April 14, was assigned to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Stanford, Calif.).

"Fiber optic gyroscope with optical gating for spike suppression" was invented by Michel J.F. Digonnet (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Jonathan M. Wheeler (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber optic gyroscope includes an optical fiber coil, at least one optical circuit, and at least one optical gate. The at least one optical circuit is configured to receive input optical signals generated by at least one optical source, to split each input optical signal into first and second optical signals, to...