ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,705, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Arqit Ltd. (London).
"System and method for beam alignment" was invented by Omar Iqbal (Petersfield, Great Britain), James Kirrane (London) and Sam Heselwood (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of aligning a quantum laser beam with a receiver, the method including: generating a quantum laser beam and a first classical, non-quantum, laser beam at a transmitter, the quantum laser beam and the first classical laser beam being substantially aligned in direction; transmitting the quantum laser beam and the first classical laser beam; and directing the quantum laser beam and first classic...