US Patent Issued to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS on Oct. 14 for "Magneto-optical trap system" (California, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,517, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Magneto-optical trap system" was invented by Dora Chavez (Canoga Park, Calif.), Eric A. Imhof (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Michael S. Larsen (Woodland Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example includes a MOT system. The system includes first optical source configured to provide a plurality of first optical beams parallel to a central axis associated with the MOT system, and a first set of optics configured to focus the first optical beams to the central axis through a trapping region comprising a vapor of atoms. The system also incl...