ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,587, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Frequency-domain arbitrary linear transformations for photons" was invented by Siddharth Buddhiraju (Palo Alto, Calif.), Avik Dutt (Menlo Park, Calif.), Momchil Minkov (San Francisco), Ian A.D. Williamson (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shanhui Fan (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more optical resonators are coupled to an optical waveguide in sequence. Each of the resonators includes a corresponding modulator. A signal controller is configured to electrically drive each modulator with a correspond...