ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,492, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Vector Atomic Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).
"Atomic vapor source for quantum metrology" was invented by Parth Bharatkumar Patel (Fremont, Calif.), Martin Machai Boyd (Pleasanton, Calif.), William David Lunden (Dublin, Calif.) and Daniel Sheredy (Castro Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein describe using compressed source material to perform an atomic experiment or an atomic application within a vacuum chamber (e.g., an atom cooling and trapping apparatus). Source material is often refined and sold with dendritic or crystalline surfaces that result in a very large surfac...