US Patent Issued to Seoul National University R&DB foundation on April 7 for "Method and apparatus for linear optical quantum computing" (South Korean, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,949, issued on April 7, was assigned to Seoul National University R&DB foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for linear optical quantum computing" was invented by Hyunseok Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Seok-Hyung Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Yong Siah Teo (Seoul, South Korea) and Srikrishna Omkar (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for linear optical quantum computing includes configuring at least two first Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states consisting of three photons; configuring at least one second GHZ state consisting of four or more photons by firstly combining the at least two first GHZ states; ge...