US Patent Issued to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University on May 20 for "Modular quantum interconnect for microwave and telecommunications wavelengths" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,889, issued on May 20, was assigned to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Mich.).

"Modular quantum interconnect for microwave and telecommunications wavelengths" was invented by Jonas Nils Becker (Lansing, Mich.), Shannon Singer Nicley (Lansing, Mich.) and Johannes Pollanen (Lansing, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum interconnect module includes a quantum memory that has a dual arm interferometer embedded therein. The dual arm interferometer has a first arm within a crystal and a second arm within the crystal. The interferometer is coupled to a photon source. A microwave resonator has a wavegui...