ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,170, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to XANADU QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Toronto).

"Methods and systems for pulsed beam phase locking" was invented by Yanbing Zhang (Toronto) and Varun Vaidya (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pump source configured to generate a pulsed optical beam. The pump source generates a first light beam, a second light beam, and a third light beam, where the first, the second, and the third light beams satisfy a phase relationship. Each of the first, the second, and the third light beams are independently modulated in separate modulation paths and recombined as a pulsed optical beam. A portion of the ...