ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,789, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Hybrid free space oscillators for ultraprecision sensor applications" was invented by Mohamed Yehia Mohamed Shalaby (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Abdulrahman M. Shalaby (Kajang, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A free space optical oscillator system for sensing perturbations in optical signals transmitted through a free space propagation region includes a laser diode which generates intensity-modulated optical signals. A first 50/50 directional coupler connected to the laser diode injects the intensity-modulated optical sign...