US Patent Issued to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia on Oct. 21 for "Compact grating magneto-optical trap sensor head for inertial navigation in dynamic environments" (New Mexico, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,256, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Compact grating magneto-optical trap sensor head for inertial navigation in dynamic environments" was invented by Jongmin Lee (Albuquerque, N.M.), Grant Biedermann (Norman, Okla.), Aaron M. Ison (Albuquerque, N.M.), Daniel Paul Gillund (Edgewood, N.M.), David Bossert (Albuquerque, N.M.), Kyle H. Fuerschbach (Albuquerque, N.M.), Charles A. Walker (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Peter Schwindt (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact grating-mirror magneto-optical trap (GMOT) cold atom inertial sensor head ...