US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 11 for "Physical media incorporating colour centres for use in quantum systems" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,520, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Physical media incorporating colour centres for use in quantum systems" was invented by Georgios Chatzidrosos (Cambridge, Great Britain), Foteini Karinou (London), Patrick Neil Anderson (Cambridge, Great Britain), Hitesh Ballani (Cambridge, Great Britain), Anna Mitenkova (London) and Antony Ian Taylor Rowstron (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising: a crystal; and a colour centre located within the crystal and adapted to receive: a magnetic field, such that a projection of the magnetic field onto a c...