ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,861, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to PHOTONIC INC. (Coquitlam, Canada).

"Systems, devices, articles and methods including luminescent local defects in semiconductors with local information states" was invented by Stephanie Simmons (Burnaby, Canada) and Michael L. W. Thewalt (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, such as, an information processing or communications device, including a body of semiconductor material consisting principally of silicon, one or more luminescence centres disposed in the body of semiconductor material, one or more optical degrees of freedom associated with the one or more luminescence cen...