ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,646, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Photonic Inc. (Coquitlam, Canada).

"Control of hyperfine interaction in broker-client systems" was invented by Stephanie Simmons (Burnaby, Canada) and Joshua Kanaganayagam (Langley, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide protection of a quantum state of a client quantum system of a broker-client system. The client-broker system comprises the client quantum system and a broker quantum system coupled by an anisotropic hyperfine interaction. The method comprises applying a magnetic field having an orientation and magnitude selected to suppress the hyperfine interaction...