ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,534, issued on March 31, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION Ltd. (Haifa, Israel).

"Methods and apparatus to generate macroscopic fock and other sub-poissonian states of radiation" was invented by Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Mass.), Ido Kaminer (Haifa, Israel), Nicholas Rivera (Somerville, Mass.), Jamison Sloan (Somerville, Mass.) and Yannick Salamin (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A principle which enables the generation of macroscopic Fock and sub-Poissonian states is disclosed. Generic components of the system include: an electromagn...