US Patent Issued to The MITRE on Sept. 29 for "Rydberg atom-based vector and polarization sensor" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,140, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to The MITRE Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"Rydberg atom-based vector and polarization sensor" was invented by Bonnie Lee Marlow (Ashburn, Va.) and Charles Thomas Fancher (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric field sensor may include an atomic vapor cell and a plurality of lasers configured to excite atoms in the vapor cell from a low-energy state to a high-energy state. The sensor may be configured to split signals from the plurality of lasers into multiple polarized signals. The polarized signals may be transmitted through the atomic vapor cell. A subset of the polarized signals may ...