US Patent Issued to JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY on March 25 for "Inertial sensor, atomic interferometer, method for adjusting speed and course of atomic beam, and apparatus for adjusting speed and course of atomic beam" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,244, issued on March 25, was assigned to JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY Ltd. (Tokyo) and TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Tokyo).

"Inertial sensor, atomic interferometer, method for adjusting speed and course of atomic beam, and apparatus for adjusting speed and course of atomic beam" was invented by Kento Taniguchi (Tokyo), Ryotaro Inoue (Tokyo), Mikio Kozuma (Kanagawa, Japan) 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 intersect...