ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,912, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Optimized quantum transduction" was invented by Sattwik Deb Mishra (Stanford, Calif.), Rahul Trivedi (Stanford, Calif.), Jelena Vuckovic (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Amir H. Safavi-Naeini (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved quantum transducers based on ensembles of quantum emitters are provided. This work improves the efficiencies of such transducers by compensating for the detrimental effects of inhomogeneous broadening of transition frequencies in such systems. This approach is built upon the i...