ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,306, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Md.).

"Adaptive and optimal imaging of quantum optical systems for quantum computing" was invented by Christopher Monroe (Ellicott City, Md.), Jiehang Zhang (College Park, Md.), David Wong-Campos (Hyattsville, Md.), Antonios Kyprianidis (Takoma, Md.) and Patrick Michael Becker (College Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes an adaptive and optimal imaging of individual quantum emitters within a lattice or optical field of view for quantum computing. Advanced image processing techniques are described to identify indiv...