US Patent Issued to National University of Singapore on Oct. 21 for "Clock synchronization based on temporal photon bunching effect" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,030, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to National University of Singapore (Singapore).

"Clock synchronization based on temporal photon bunching effect" was invented by Jianwei Lee (Singapore), Lijiong Shen (Singapore), Peng Kian Tan (Singapore) and Christian Kurtsiefer (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of clock synchronization between first and second clocks on first and second ends, respectively, of an optical channel; and a system for clock synchronization between first and second clocks on first and second ends, respectively, of an optical channel. The method comprises the steps of generating light exhibiting therm...