US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on July 15 for "High-contrast atomic inertial interferometry with frequency comb or comb-like light source" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,919, issued on July 15, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"High-contrast atomic inertial interferometry with frequency comb or comb-like light source" was invented by Robert Compton (Loretto, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An atomic inertial interferometer comprises a laser that emits a CW beam; a modulator that modulates the CW beam; a filter and delay mechanism that receives the modulated beam, and includes a first pathway and a second pathway longer than the first pathway; a comb generator that receives the modulated beam, and produces a frequency comb; and a comb drive coupled to the comb gener...