Patent 11988727 was granted and assigned to Hrl Laboratories, Llc on May, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A magnetic gradiometer sensor comprising a substrate with at least a pair of resonators disposed thereon, wherein each of the at least a pair of resonators is coated with a magnetostrictive film. The resonators are preferably connected to sustaining circuits to form oscillators and the oscillators are preferably used within a phase lock loop to detect a difference in the magnetic field between the at least a pair of resonators.