ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,694, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUDOOR TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Beijing).

"Gating apparatus for single-photon detector and quantum communication device" was invented by Liuping Chen (Beijing), Yongsheng Fan (Beijing), Xiangkui Wan (Beijing), Zhenyang Jin (Beijing), Qibing Wang (Beijing) and Xihui Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The gating apparatus comprises: a system synchronization unit configured to acquire a clock of a quantum communication system; and a programmable controller configured to generate at least one periodic gating signal sequence that are synchronized with the clock of the quantum communication syste...