US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU, Kyoto University on April 21 for "System and method for quantum absorption spectroscopy" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,554, issued on April 21, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan) and Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan).

"System and method for quantum absorption spectroscopy" was invented by Hideaki Katsu (Kyoto, Japan), Koji Tojo (Kyoto, Japan), Kenji Takubo (Kyoto, Japan), Yuya Nagata (Kyoto, Japan), Shigeki Takeuchi (Kyoto, Japan) and Ryo Okamoto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The quantum optical system changes a phase of quantum interference occurring between a plurality of physical processes, in each of which a quantum entangled photon pair of a signal photon and an idler photon is generated. Each of a plurality of pixels ou...