ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,197, issued on July 1, was assigned to Beijing QBoson Quantum Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Optical coherence computation apparatus and an error correction method thereof" was invented by Kai Wen (Beijing) and Yin Ma (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an optical coherence computation apparatus and an error correction method. The optical coherence computation apparatus includes: a laser, a first beam splitter, a second beam splitter, a third beam splitter, a first modulator, a second modulator, a third modulator, a first converter, a second converter, a first coupler, a second coupler, an injector, a homodyne detec...