US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO on April 21 for "Electronic state splitter for atoms, atom interferometer atomic transition frequency measurement device, atomic oscillator, optical lattice clock, quantum computer and method for generating superposition of electronic states of atoms" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,512, issued on April 21, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO (Tokyo).

"Electronic state splitter for atoms, atom interferometer atomic transition frequency measurement device, atomic oscillator, optical lattice clock, quantum computer and method for generating superposition of electronic states of atoms" was invented by Hidetoshi Katori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic state splitter for atoms comprises an atom supplier, an atom movement path, a probe laser source, and a magnetic field generator. The atom supplier supplies atoms moving at a constant velocity along the atom movement path. The probe laser source...