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Search Patents by Vladislav Gerginov

Patents listed here reflect only technologies patented from FY 2018-present. To view all of NIST's patented technologies, visit the NIST pages on the Federal Laboratory Consortium website.

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Chip-scale atomic magnetometers arranged in an array around a human head to detect brain magnetic fields.

Atomic Magnetometer and Method of Sensing Magnetic Fields

NIST Inventors
John Kitching and Vladislav Gerginov
NIST has made long-awaited advances in the creation of magnetometers and in detecting magnetic fields. The chip-size NIST atomic magnetometer has at least one sensor head void of extraneous metallic components, electrical contacts, or electrically conducting pathways. This novel sensor contains an
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