ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,132, issued on May 6, was assigned to ColdQuanta Inc. (Boulder, Colo.).
"Magnetic shielding for ion pumps" was invented by Steven Michael Hughes (Louisville, Colo.), Evan Salim (Lafayette, Colo.), Hugo Leon (Longmont, Colo.), Christopher Robert Sheridan III (Boulder, Colo.) and Stetson Joe Roof (Longmont, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a vacuum cell, an ion pump, and a multi-layer magnetic shield is described. The vacuum cell includes a magnetic field-sensitive section, a pump section, and a channel section providing a vacuum conductance path between the magnetic field-sensitive section and the pump section. ...