ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,569, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Psiquantum Corp. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Photonic integrated circuits with controllable interferometers" was invented by Mercedes Gimeno-Segovia (San Jose, Calif.), Terence Rudolph (San Francisco) and Naomi Nickerson (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a plurality of quantum systems, wherein each quantum system of the plurality of quantum system includes a plurality of quantum sub-systems in an entangled state, and wherein respective quantum systems of the plurality of quantum systems are independent quantum systems that are not entangled with one another. Th...