US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Sept. 9 for "Polariton quantum dots comprising ultrashort carbon nanotubes" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,428, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Polariton quantum dots comprising ultrashort carbon nanotubes" was invented by Abram L. Falk (Port Chester, N.Y.), Damon Brooks Farmer (White Plains, N.Y.) and Anil Yuksel (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nanotube polariton quantum dot photon source device includes a substrate. A nanotube is arranged on the substrate, and an incident light source is configured to generate an exciton-plasmon polariton excitation in the nanotube. The nanotube emits a photon in response to the generated exciton plasmon polariton excita...