US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on Oct. 21 for "Broadband resonator optical gyroscope with efficient optical power management for low shot noise" (Arizona, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,258, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Broadband resonator optical gyroscope with efficient optical power management for low shot noise" was invented by Tiequn Qiu (Glendale, Ariz.), Jianfeng Wu (Tucson, Ariz.), Glen A. Sanders (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Matthew Wade Puckett (Phoenix), Steven Tin (Edina, Minn.) and Marc Smiciklas (Phoenix).

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 a broadband frequency range. The method includes coupling the optical signals into an optical resonator (OR) to propagate in a fir...