US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on July 1 for "Photonics gyroscope with broadband light source" (Arizona, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,530, issued on July 1, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonics gyroscope comprises a light source on a photonics chip that emits a broadband beam; a waveguide resonator; a reflective component; first and second detectors, the second detector coupled to the source; a RIN servo loop coupled between the second detector and the source; and a rate calculat...