ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,177, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The Secretary of State for Defence (Salisbury, Great Britain).
"Rydberg radio sensor" was invented by Matthew David Himsworth (Salisbury, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Rydberg sensor for detecting radio signals has a Rydberg vapour cell and input and output units for probe and control laser beams, where the input and output units split respective input laser beams into respective arrays to intersect oppositely within the vapour cell. The input and output units each contain an array of beamsplitters which preferably have successively increasing splitter ratio along the array, and ...