US Patent Issued to United States Government Administrator of NASA on Sept. 2 for "Heralded source of entangled photon pairs" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,424, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to United States Government Administrator of NASA (Washington).

"Heralded source of entangled photon pairs" was invented by John D Lekki (Cleveland), Yousef Kamal Chahine (Cleveland), Evan J. Katz (Cleveland), Ian R. Nemitz (Cleveland) and Brian E. Vyhnalek (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a first pair of entanglement sources, a first Bell state measurement (BSM) device, at least one memory, a herald output, and at least one optical switch. The first pair of entanglement sources includes a first entanglement source and a second entanglement source configured to gener...