US Patent Issued to JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 19 for "Inertial sensor, atomic interferometer, method for adjusting speeds of atoms, and apparatus for adjusting speeds of atoms" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,614, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY Ltd. (Tokyo) and TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Tokyo).

"Inertial sensor, atomic interferometer, method for adjusting speeds of atoms, and apparatus for adjusting speeds of atoms" was invented by Ryotaro Inoue (Tokyo), Mikio Kozuma (Kanagawa, Japan), Kento Taniguchi (Tokyo) and Atsushi Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adjuster performs simultaneous irradiation of M laser beams to an atomic beam, where M is a predetermined integer satisfying 3less than equal toM. The course of each of the M laser beams intersects with the course of the atomic be...