US Patent Issued to BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE on July 21 for "Smart quantum light detector" (Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,426, issued on July 21, was assigned to BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE (Baton Rouge, La.).

"Smart quantum light detector" was invented by Omar Magana-Loaiza (Prairieville, La.) and Chenglong You (Baton Rouge, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for identification of light source types includes detecting individual photons for a measurement time period to provide a times series of individual photon events, segmenting the time series into a plurality of time bins, and determining a number of detected photons within each time bin to provide a time series of p...