ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,272, issued on July 14, was assigned to Photonic Inc. (Coquitlam, Canada).

"Control of hyperfine interaction in broker-client systems" was invented by Evan Macquarrie (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for protecting a quantum state of a client quantum system of a broker-client system are disclosed. The client-broker system comprises the client quantum system and a broker quantum system coupled by a hyperfine interaction. The method comprises suppressing the hyperfine interaction by applying an electromagnetic dressing field to the client-broker system in the presence of a first magnetic field. The el...