US Patent Issued to The United States America as represented by the Secretary of the Army on April 22 for "Method and apparatus for mapping out sources of decoherence in quantum channels" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,998, issued on April 22, was assigned to The United States America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington).

"Method and apparatus for mapping out sources of decoherence in quantum channels" was invented by Michael Brodsky (Millburn, N.J.), Cristian Antonelli (Sulmona, Italy), Daniel E. Jones (Nottingham, Md.) and Gabriele Riccardi (Rome).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus and methods for defining an impairment profile along a polarization quantum channel such as in terms of modal loss and decoherence. The disclosed impairment profile or characterization methods may be used as part of a tool such as to in...