US Patent Issued to PsiQuantum on July 28 for "Superconducting photon detector" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,157, issued on July 28, was assigned to PsiQuantum Corp. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Superconducting photon detector" was invented by Mark Thompson (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Faraz Najafi (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example multi-element photon detector includes a waveguide configured to guide a set of photons from a photon source, wherein the waveguide includes (i) a first coupling region, and (ii) a second coupling region. The example detector also includes a first photon detector coupled to the first coupling region and configured to detect individual photons from the first coupling region, the first photon detector ar...