ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,707, issued on April 8.
"Pulsed spectropolarimeter" was invented by Roger Smith (Lake Forest, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to pulsed spectropolarimeters for conducting remote, non-perturbative measurements of the local magnetic field, density and temperature fields of a magnetized plasma medium. In one aspect, a pulsed spectropolarimeter includes a light source emitting a polarized light pulse having sufficiently narrow spatial extent at a prescribed wavelength and a light gathering optical system including a light gathering optic having an optic axis directed toward the medium and positioned to c...