ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,087, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Rome, N.Y.).

"Apparatus and methods for reduction of crosstalk in integrated photonics applied to addressing quantum memories" was invented by Michael L. Fanto (Rome, N.Y.), David Hucul (Fayette, N.Y.), Stefan Preble (Pittsford, N.Y.), Amos M. Smith (Chittenango, N.Y.), Zachary Smith (Clinton, N.Y.), Kathy-Anne Soderberg (Manilus, N.Y.) and Christopher Tison (Rome, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method for minimum crosstalk between waveguides via on chip filtering and scatter mitigation necessary to pr...