US Patent Issued to UNM Rainforest Innovations on Feb. 10 for "Integrated silicon photonics platforms for scalable quantum systems" (New Mexico, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,262, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to UNM Rainforest Innovations (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Integrated silicon photonics platforms for scalable quantum systems" was invented by Marek Osinski (Albuquerque, N.M.), Ganesh Balakrishnan (Albuquerque, N.M.), Arash Mafi (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Roman Sobolewski (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an electronic device having a quantum photonic integrated circuit (QuPIC) including a photonsource, a photon detector and an optical waveguide configured for guiding the photons from the source to the detector."

The patent was filed on Oct. 13, 2020, under Ap...