US Patent Issued to The University of Birmingham on Aug. 25 for "Preparation of cold atom clouds for measuring gravity gradient" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,060, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The University of Birmingham (Birmingham, Great Britain).

"Preparation of cold atom clouds for measuring gravity gradient" was invented by Kai Bongs (Birmingham, Great Britain), Mehdi Langlois (Birmingham, Great Britain), Luuk Earl (Birmingham, Great Britain) and Michael Holynski (Birmingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for generating vertically separated atom clouds. The apparatus comprises an optical system comprising an arrangement of lenses and optics. The optical system is configured to trap and cool atoms to form a cold atom cloud; select the hyperfine level ...