ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,020, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Quantum Source Labs Ltd. (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel) and Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Entangling photonic graphs" was invented by Gil Semo (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Ziv Aqua (Rehovot, Israel), Oded Melamed (Shoham, Israel), Dan Charash (Herzliya, Israel), Serge Rosenblum (Rehovot, Israel) and Barak Dayan (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum computing method includes initializing a state of a resonator-coupled quantum emitter, receiving at least two photonic graph states, selecting at least one photon from each graph state, feeding the selected photons ...