US Patent Issued to PHOTONIC on May 20 for "Superconducting single photon detector with photon number resolution" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,040, issued on May 20, was assigned to PHOTONIC INC. (Coquitlam, Canada).

"Superconducting single photon detector with photon number resolution" was invented by Mohsen Keshavarz Akhlaghi (North Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single photon number resolving detector provides photon number resolution. The detector includes a waveguide which receives photons for detection. Nanowires are located in proximity to the waveguide. Each of the nanowires is connected in series with an electrically resistive component to provide a branch. Plural branches are electrically connected in parallel with one another. A power source i...