US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on Sept. 8 for "Distributed time resolved fluorescence sensor using temporally correlated photons" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,068, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Distributed time resolved fluorescence sensor using temporally correlated photons" was invented by Scott K. Cushing (Glendale, Calif.), Nathan A. Harper (Pasadena, Calif.), Bryce P. Hickam (Pasadena, Calif.) and Manni He (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device including a continuous (CW)]] wave source of pairs of entangled photons comprising a first photon entangled with a second photon; a first channel terminated by a first detector configured to detect the first photon and a second channel terminated by a second detecto...