US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on July 1 for "Ovens for atomic clocks and related methods and atomic clocks" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,240, issued on July 1, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Ovens for atomic clocks and related methods and atomic clocks" was invented by Lichung Ha (Wakefield, Mass.), Jay Noble (Beverly, Mass.), David Guan (Belmont, Mass.) and Armando T. Martins (Beverly, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ovens for atomic clocks may include a body including a cavity within the body. A plurality of heating elements may be distributed around the body, each heating element of the plurality including coils of electrically resistive material. An arrangement of the plurality of heating elements may be such that far fields of m...