ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,697, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Calient.AI Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Passive motion isolation system" was invented by Shifu Yuan (Goleta, Calif.), Norm Gardner (Goleta, Calif.), Ernest M. Leos (Goleta, Calif.), Augie Ramirez (Goleta, Calif.), Nan Luo (Goleta, Calif.), Sajanish Balagopal (Goleta, Calif.) and Mike Hopkins (Oxnard, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passive motion isolation system for motion-sensitive equipment is disclosed. The passive motion isolation system has a three-axis free motion platform mounted on a base subject to ambient motions. A vibration isolation subsystem is coupled between the motion-sensiti...