ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,395, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Quantum Optics Jena GmbH (Jena, Germany).
"Method for polarization alignment" was invented by Adria Sansa Perna (Jena, Germany), Alessandro Zannotti (Jena, Germany) and Oliver de Vries (Jena, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for polarization alignment, preferably for and/or in the case of optical communication, quantum cryptography and/or quantum computing, comprising a source (2) for generating polarization-entangled photon pairs and two detection modules (3, 4), wherein the source (2) for transmitting the photons is connected via in each case one quantum channel (5) to the two ...