US Patent Issued to AOSense on April 15 for "Phase-space filtering in thermal beam inertial sensors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,503, issued on April 15, was assigned to AOSense Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Phase-space filtering in thermal beam inertial sensors" was invented by Mark A. Kasevich (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Igor Teper (Half Moon Bay, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device comprises thermal atomic source(s), atom interference lasers, and additional laser beam(s). The thermal atomic source(s) provide atomic beam(s). The atom interference lasers are disposed to provide interrogation laser beams that interrogate the atomic beam(s) to assist in generating atom interference. The interrogation laser beams are configured so as to enable a first speed sel...