US Patent Issued to CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE PARIS CITE, UNIVERSITE PARIS-SACLAY on March 31 for "Device for generating single photons and entangled photon pairs" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,151, issued on March 31, was assigned to CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris), UNIVERSITE PARIS CITE (Paris) and UNIVERSITE PARIS-SACLAY (Saint Aubin, France).

"Device for generating single photons and entangled photon pairs" was invented by Pascale Senellart Mardon (Orsay, France), Helene Ollivier (Ile-Tudy, France) and Loic Lanco (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for generating photons includes a quantum box inserted into an optical cavity of micro-pillar type having at least one optical mode, the quantum box having at least one fundamental state and two states with one elementary excitation, the optic...