ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,367, issued on May 13, was assigned to Elta Systems Ltd. (Ashdod, Israel).
"Magnetometer system and method" was invented by Igor Shcherback (Beer Sheva, Israel), Dmitriy Tokar (Beer Sheva, Israel), Ronen Wolf (Lehavim, Israel) and Avi Elmalem (Kibbutz Shoval, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a magnetometer for measuring a magnetic field B in the vicinity thereof. The magnetometer includes a vapor cell comprising atomic vapor; an optical processor for receiving a light beam and directing said light beam, as a probe light beam, to enter the vapor cell with a certain predetermined intensity I1 and a ...