US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, The University of Chicago on May 12 for "Multiplexed telecommunication-band quantum networking with atom arrays in optical cavities" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,910, issued on May 12, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.) and The University of Chicago (Chicago).

"Multiplexed telecommunication-band quantum networking with atom arrays in optical cavities" was invented by Jacob Paul Covey (Savoy, Ill.), William Chiu Wong Huie (Urbana, Ill.), Jia Pern Neville Chen (Champaign, Ill.), Lintao Li (Urbana, Ill.), Hannes Bernien (Chicago) and Shankar Girijavallabhan Menon (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure includes a multiplexed telecommunication-band quantum network that utilizes atomic arrays in optical cavities. An example quantum netw...