US Patent Issued to PsiQuantum on March 3 for "Time-bin qubit converter" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,355, issued on March 3, was assigned to PsiQuantum Corp. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Time-bin qubit converter" was invented by Mark G. Thompson (Chester, Great Britain), Gabriel Mendoza (Mountain View, Calif.) and Alain Shang (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a first photonic integrated circuit. The circuit includes a qubit encoder configured to receive a spatial-mode qubit and convert the spatial-mode qubit to a temporal-mode qubit and an optical interconnect configured to receive and transmit the temporal-mode qubit. The system further includes a second photonic integrated circuit, itself including a qub...