The Mitre Corporation Assigned Patent

The Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA, has been assigned a patent (10,222,822) developed by Gilbert, Gerald N., Hodges, Jonathan S., Pappas, Stephen Peter, and Weinstein, Yaakov Shmuel, McLean, VA, for a “photonic quantum memory with polarization-to-time entanglement conversion and time-to-polarization entanglement conversion.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A photonic quantum memory is provided. The photonic quantum memory includes entanglement basis conversion module configured to receive a first polarization-entangled photon pair and to produce a second entangled photon pair. The second polarization-entangled photon pair can be a time-bin entangled or a propagation direction-entangled photon pair. The photonic quantum memory further includes a photonic storage configured to receive the second entangled photon pair from the basis conversion module and to store the second entangled photon pair.”

The patent application was filed on December 22, 2017 (15/852,039).