US Patent Issued to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS on Dec. 30 for "Electrometer with radio frequency (RF) tuning waveguide" (Maryland, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,580, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Electrometer with radio frequency (RF) tuning waveguide" was invented by Eric A. Imhof (Albuquerque, N.M.), Steven Werner Geibel (Glenelg, Md.) and Steven Ryan Jefferts (Chatsworth, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment 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 Rydberg energy state of the alkali metal atoms, the at least one optical beam exiting the sensor cel...