US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Jan. 28 for "Method and system for sharing quantum entanglement between distant nodes without quantum memories" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,371, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Method and system for sharing quantum entanglement between distant nodes without quantum memories" was invented by Mahdi Hosseini (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Andrew M Weiner (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of entangling photons in a distributed quantum-based communication system is disclosed which includes generating sets of entangled photon pairs between a plurality of remote nodes (Nodes Ai and Nodes Bi) and a central entangling node (Node C), wherein Nodes Ai and Bi are in both quantum communication and classica...