ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,389, issued on June 17.

"Systems and methods for coupling fields to exotic matter" was invented by Carol Y. Scarlett (Tallahassee, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for coupling fields to exotic matter at a particular location to identify, or determine the current date/time at that location, are provided. Example techniques include capturing sensor data indicating a decay rate associated with a radioactive material at the location over a period of time; analyzing the sensor data indicating the decay rate associated with the radioactive material at the location over the period of time in order to identify a peak decay rat...