US Patent Issued to The MITRE, The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army on Oct. 21 for "Self-locked Rydberg atom electric field sensor" (Virginia, Maryland, California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,459, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to The MITRE Corp. (McLean, Va.) and The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington).

"Self-locked Rydberg atom electric field sensor" was invented by Charlie Fancher (McLean, Va.), Bonnie L. Marlow (McLean, Va.), Kathryn Nicolich (McLean, Va.), Kelly Backes (McLean, Va.), Neel Malvania (McLean, Va.), Kevin Christopher Cox (Gate City, Va.), David Henry Meyer (Burtonsville, Md.), Paul D Kunz (Austin, Texas), Joshua Cartwright Hill (Silver Spring, Md.) and William Knox Holland (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for automatically locking a ...