US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on Dec. 9 for "Vertical cavity surface-emitting laser threshold magnetometer" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,087, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Vertical cavity surface-emitting laser threshold magnetometer" was invented by Neal Eldrich Solmeyer (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A threshold magnetometer includes a vertical cavity surface-emitting laser with a first material that is disposed in one of the layers. The first material is configured as an absorbent material or emission material to light propagating in the optical resonator. As an absorbent material, the first material absorbs light when exposed to radio frequency (RF) radiation at one or more resonant frequencies. As ...