US Patent Issued to University of Maryland, College Park, Government of th United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce on July 29 for "Planar-optics based light delivery system for magneto-optical traps and method for using the same" (Maryland, Colorado, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,801, issued on July 29, was assigned to University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Md.) and Government of th United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Gaithersburg, Md.).

"Planar-optics based light delivery system for magneto-optical traps and method for using the same" was invented by William R. McGehee (Boulder, Colo.), Jabez McClelland (Bethesda, Md.), Vladimir Aksyuk (Gaithersburg, Md.), Wenqi Zhu (Vienna, Va.) and Amit Kumar Agrawal (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for light delivery to magneto-optical trap (MOT) system utilizes only planar optical diffraction devi...