US Patent Issued to Lockheed Martin on March 18 for "Enhanced bandwidth for secure optical communications" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,989, issued on March 18, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Corp. (Bethesda, Md.).

"Enhanced bandwidth for secure optical communications" was invented by Joseph Robert Buck Jr. (Superior, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are various techniques and equipment for establishing secure non-classical communications between distant nodes. In one example, a method includes introducing, by at least one photon source, source photons into corresponding waveguides configured to convert the source photons into randomly timed pairs of resultant non-classical photons having corresponding polarization states. The method also includ...