ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,490, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM LTD. (Jerusalem) and UNIVERSITY ULM (Ulm, Germany).

"Detector array system" was invented by Fedor Jelezko (Ulm, Germany) and Alex Retzker (Jerusalem).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor system is presented comprising: a plurality of sensor units arranged in a predetermined arrangement to be exposed to an electromagnetic signal to be measured, a drive unit configured for providing one or more electromagnetic drive pulses to said sensing units to thereby affect one or more selected quantum properties associated with said...