ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,612, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for effective relative intensity noise subtraction for a broadband resonator optical gyroscope" was invented by Tiequn Qiu (Glendale, Ariz.), Jianfeng Wu (Tucson, Ariz.), Glen A. Sanders (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Matthew Wade Puckett (Phoenix) and Steven Tin (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a resonator optical gyroscope includes generating optical signals having broadband frequency range; coupling optical signals into optical resonator (OR) to propagate in first direction and out of OR after optica...