Patents by Inventor Robert Wyllie

Robert Wyllie has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Gas magnetometer
    Patent number: 9329152
    Abstract: Measurement of a precessional rate of a gas, such as an alkali gas, in a magnetic field is made by promoting a non-uniform precession of the gas in which substantially no net magnetic field affects the gas during a majority of the precession cycle. This allows sensitive gases that would be subject to spin-exchange collision de-phasing to be effectively used for extremely sensitive measurements in the presence of an environmental magnetic field such as the Earth's magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Thad Gilbert Walker, Brian Robert Lancor, Robert Wyllie
  • Noble gas magnetic resonator
    Patent number: 8698493
    Abstract: Precise measurements of a precessional rate of noble gas in a magnetic field is obtained by constraining the time averaged direction of the spins of a stimulating alkali gas to lie in a plane transverse to the magnetic field. In this way, the magnetic field of the alkali gas does not provide a net contribution to the precessional rate of the noble gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Thad Gilbert Walker, Brian Robert Lancor, Robert Wyllie
  • Gas Magnetometer
    Publication number: 20130033255
    Abstract: Measurement of a precessional rate of a gas, such as an alkali gas, in a magnetic field is made by promoting a non-uniform precession of the gas in which substantially no net magnetic field affects the gas during a majority of the precession cycle. This allows sensitive gases that would be subject to spin-exchange collision de-phasing to be effectively used for extremely sensitive measurements in the presence of an environmental magnetic field such as the Earth's magnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Inventors: Thad Gilbert Walker, Brian Robert Lancor, Robert Wyllie
  • Noble Gas Magnetic Resonator
    Publication number: 20130033261
    Abstract: Precise measurements of a precessional rate of noble gas in a magnetic field is obtained by constraining the time averaged direction of the spins of a stimulating alkali gas to lie in a plane transverse to the magnetic field. In this way, the magnetic field of the alkali gas does not provide a net contribution to the precessional rate of the noble gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Inventors: Thad Gilbert Walker, Brian Rober Lancor, Robert Wyllie