US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on May 5 for "Ultrafast detector of rydberg atoms" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,884, issued on May 5, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Ultrafast detector of rydberg atoms" was invented by Wenchao Xu (Cambridge, Mass.), Vladan Vuletic (Cambridge, Mass.), Sergio Hiram Cantu (Cambridge, Mass.), Valentin Kluesener (Erlangen, Germany), Aditya Vignesh Venkatramani (Boston), Mikhail D. Lukin (Cambridge, Mass.) and Tamara Sumarac (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, comprising at least one monochromatic light source configured to generate a first optical trap; an ensemble of particles disposed in...