ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,852, issued on July 29, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Generation of entangled photons in an optical Bragg resonator" was invented by Matthew Wade Puckett (Phoenix), Chad Fertig (Bloomington, Minn.) and Matthew Robbins (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among other embodiments, a method for generated entangled photons is disclosed. The method comprises generating photons in a fundamental mode and converting the photons from the fundamental mode to a higher-order mode. The method further comprises generating, by a Bragg resonator configured to receive the photons, entangled photons in the fun...