ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,308, issued on July 15, was assigned to Qunnect Inc. (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for real-time polarization drift compensation in optical fiber channels used for quantum communications" was invented by Mael Flament (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Mehdi Namazi (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Rourke Sekelsky (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Gabriel Bello Portmann (Port Jefferson, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing polarization compensation in optical fiber-based quantum telecommunications systems are provided. The system includes a polarization modulator optically coupled to a photon source by an optical fiber and at least one c...