US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 17 for "Physical media incorporating colour centres for use in quantum systems" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,018, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Physical media incorporating colour centres for use in quantum systems" was invented by Georgios Chatzidrosos (Cambridge, Great Britain), Foteini Karinou (London), Patrick Neil Anderson (Cambridge, Great Britain), Hitesh Ballani (Cambridge, Great Britain), Anna Mitenkova (London) and Antony Ian Taylor Rowstron (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising: a crystal; a wire pair formed of a first wire connected so as to receive a first alternating current, and a second wire connected so as to receive a seco...