US Patent Issued to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia on April 15 for "Super resolution and fast surface B-field imaging using an NV-diamond" (New Mexico Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,610, issued on April 15, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Super resolution and fast surface B-field imaging using an NV-diamond" was invented by Yuan-Yu Jau (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to devices and systems for rapidly producing high resolution images of magnetic fields in a sample. The devices and systems employ diamond chips with color centers that fluoresce in the presence of magnetic fields. The high resolution is due to the use of one of three excitation methods. The first method employs modulation of an acousti...