US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on Jan. 27 for "Resonant optical gyroscope with a broadband light source and RIN reduction techniques" (Arizona, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,320, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Resonant optical gyroscope with a broadband light source and RIN reduction techniques" was invented by Jianfeng Wu (Tucson, Ariz.), Tiequn Qiu (Glendale, Ariz.), Steven Tin (Edina, Minn.), Glen A. Sanders (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Matthew Wade Puckett (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gyroscope comprises a source emitting a broadband beam, and a first waveguide arrangement that splits the beam into CCW and CW beams. First and second phase modulators are coupled to the waveguide arrangement and provide phase modulations or frequency shifts t...