ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,433, issued on March 18, was assigned to Vector Atomic Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).
"Continuous wave optical two-way time transfer" was invented by Jonathan David Roslund (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Arman Cingoz (Pleasanton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein describe a continuous wave two-way optical time two-way transfer system. The embodiments herein lock a local frequency comb to a clock (e.g., optical/microwave atomic clock, Fabry-Perot optical reference cavity, etc.) in a local platform. The platform then generates two CW optical signals with different frequencies and locks those optical signals to the local f...