US Patent Issued to THALES on May 27 for "Atomic chip for ultra-cold atom inertial sensor and associated sensor" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,653, issued on May 27, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France).

"Atomic chip for ultra-cold atom inertial sensor and associated sensor" was invented by Matthieu Dupont-Nivet (Palaiseau, France) and Benjamin Wirtschafter (Palaiseau, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An atom chip for an ultracold-atom sensor, the chip includes an XY-plane normal to a Z-axis, the atom chip comprising: first and second coplanar waveguides suitable for propagating microwaves at respective angular frequencies Omegaa and Omegab, the waveguides being placed symmetrically on either side of the X-axis and being referred to as X-wise guides, first and s...