ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,286, issued on March 24, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Quantum teleportation imaging" was invented by Jiapeng Zhao (Kenmore, Wash.), Hassan Shapourian (San Mateo, Calif.), Eneet Kaur (Somerville, Mass.), Shadi Ebrahimi Asl (Raleigh, N.C.) and Ramana Rao V R Kompella (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: providing, from a first endpoint, an unentangled photon containing image information to an intermediate server via a first multimode fiber; generating, at a second endpoint, an entangled photon pair including a fi...