US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Electric Industries on Jan. 13 for "Diamond magnetic sensor unit and diamond magnetic sensor system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,721, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Diamond magnetic sensor unit and diamond magnetic sensor system" was invented by Yoshiki Nishibayashi (Osaka, Japan), Hiromi Nakanishi (Osaka, Japan), Hiroshige Deguchi (Kyoto, Japan), Tsukasa Hayashi (Kyoto, Japan) and Natsuo Tatsumi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diamond magnetic sensor unit includes: a sensor part that includes a diamond having a color center with electron spin; an excitation light irradiation part that irradiates the diamond with excitation light; and a detection part that detects radiated light from the col...