US Patent Issued to NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA on June 10 for "Fibre optic integrated quantum memory for light" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,589, issued on June 10, was assigned to NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA (Ottawa).

"Fibre optic integrated quantum memory for light" was invented by Philip J. Bustard (Ottawa), Duncan G. England (Ottawa), Benjamin J. Sussman (Ottawa), Stephen Mihailov (Ottawa), Kyrylo Hnatovsky (Ottawa) and Dan Grobnic (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an efficient quantum memory for storing a quantum state of light, such as a photon, for a temporary period of time in a fibre-integrated optical cavity and then recall the quantum state of light and quantum information at a later time with a high probability of su...