ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,338, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.) and UT-BATTELLE LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Non-gaussian photonic state engineering" was invented by Saikat Guha (Tucson, Ariz.), Christos Gagatsos (Tucson, Ariz.) and Joseph Lukens (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for generating a non-Gaussian quantum state includes a quantum-optical frequency-comb source that generates pairs of entangled spectral modes and a series of electrically controllable optical transformation modules that receive the entangled spectral modes from the frequency-co...