US Patent Issued to Quantum Network Technologies on Sept. 8 for "Managing coupling of optical modes with quantum state emission elements" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,262, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Quantum Network Technologies Inc. (Boston).

"Managing coupling of optical modes with quantum state emission elements" was invented by Dirk Robert Englund (Brookline, Mass.) and Brendan John Shields (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for interacting with quantum states over respective time intervals comprises: providing, from at least one optical fiber interface, a fiber-coupled optical mode that controls optical coupling to and/or from an optical fiber, where at least a portion of the optical fiber extends outside of an interior of a housing comprising the at least one op...