ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,214, issued on Sept. 9.

"Method and machine for the discrimination of the spacetime separation between wave packets" was invented by Joseph N. Berlin (Coatesville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the discrimination of spacetime separation between input wave packets includes producing a potential for constructive interference between said input wave packets, transmitting the input wave packets if they exhibit an amplitude above a predetermined threshold by achieving constructive interference and rejecting the input wave packets which do not exhibit said amplitude above the predetermined threshold. A machine employing ...