US Patent Issued to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS on Aug. 5 for "Electrometer with radio frequency tuning signal" (California, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,406, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Electrometer with radio frequency tuning signal" was invented by Eric A. Imhof (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Steven Ryan Jefferts (Chatsworth, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example includes an electrometer system. The system includes a sensor cell comprising alkali metal atoms within, and an optical beam system configured to provide at least one optical beam through the sensor cell to provide a first Rydberg energy state of the alkali metal atoms, the at least one optical beam exiting the sensor cell as a detection beam. The system also i...