US Patent Issued to Technische Universiteit Delft, Universitat Innsbruck on Sept. 15 for "Method and system for operating a quantum network node" (Dutch, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,660, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Technische Universiteit Delft (Delft, Netherlands) and Universitat Innsbruck (Innsbruck, Austria).

"Method and system for operating a quantum network node" was invented by Tim Hugo Taminiau (Delft, Netherlands), Conor Eliot Bradley (The Hague, Netherlands), Ronald Hanson (The Hague, Netherlands) and Simon Baier (Innsbruck, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for operating a quantum network node comprising an electron spin host providing an electron spin for a communication qubit and a nuclear spin host providing a nuclear spin for a data qubit. The method comprises: data qubit state...