ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,028, issued on April 7, was assigned to The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, N.J.).

"Method and system for non-interferometric quantum photonics vibrometry" was invented by Yuping Huang (Norwood, N.J.), Yongmeng Sua (Fort Lee, N.J.), Patrick Rehain (Allendale, N.J.), Shenyu Zhu (Jersey City, N.J.), Daniel Tafone (Port Murray, N.J.) and Jeevanandha Ramanathan (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches, apparatuses and methods for single photon sensitive, non-interferometric photonics vibrometry applications based on quantum parametric mode sorting, optical gating and single photon counting ar...