US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Aug. 12 for "Rubidium spin exchange relaxation free magnetometer based receiver" (Alabama, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,183, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Rubidium spin exchange relaxation free magnetometer based receiver" was invented by John Dalton Williams (Decatur, Ala.), Michael F. Mitchell (Madison, Ala.), Timothy Doyle Messer (Huntsville, Ala.) and Allon Joseph Stern (Leesburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A very low frequency (VLF) receiver is provided. The VLF receiver comprises a magnetometer that detects a magnetic field, wherein the magnetometer comprises a rubidium gas cell. Processing circuitry receives an electrical signal representative of VLF electromagnetic signals detected by the magnetom...