US Patent Issued to NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA on Sept. 1 for "Quantum circuit based on programmable optical ultrafast temporal interferomteric network elements" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,067, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA (Ottawa).

"Quantum circuit based on programmable optical ultrafast temporal interferomteric network elements" was invented by Frederic Bouchard (Gatineau, Canada), Duncan England (Ottawa), Kent Bonsma-Fisher (Ottawa), Philip J. Bustard (Ottawa), Khabat Heshami (Orleans, Canada) and Benjamin Sussman (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum computing system is set forth, comprising a photon source for generating short duration single photon pulses, at least one temporal interferometric network for time-bin encoding each short duration single photon puls...