Quantum Patent Applications

INTERFACES, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUSES FOR CONSTRUCTING 3D AR ENVIRONMENT OVERLAYS, AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING SAME

Granted: January 25, 2024
Application Number: 20240029432
Systems, apparatuses, interfaces, and methods for implementing the systems, apparatuses, and interfaces include capturing an image, displaying the image on a display devise, scanning and identifying objects and/or attributes associated with the image and/or objects therein, generating a 3D AR environment within the display overlaid on the image, generating a ray pointer for improved interaction with the image and the generated 3D AR environment, where the environment includes virtual…

COUPLED RESONATOR PHOTON-PAIR SOURCES

Granted: January 25, 2024
Application Number: 20240027872
Techniques disclosed herein relate to photon sources with high spectral purity and high brightness. In one embodiment, a photon-pair source includes a pump waveguide, a first resonator coupled to the pump waveguide to couple pump photons from the pump waveguide into the first resonator, a second resonator coupled to the first resonator, and an output waveguide coupled to the second resonator. The second resonator is configured to convert the pump photons into photon pairs. The second…

INTERFEROMETER FILTERS WITH PARTIAL COMPENSATION STRUCTURE

Granted: January 25, 2024
Application Number: 20240027179
A Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) filter comprising one or more passive compensation structures are described. The passive compensation structures yield MZI filters that are intrinsically tolerant to perturbations in waveguide dimensions and/or other ambient conditions. The use of n+1 waveguide widths can mitigate n different sources of perturbation to the filter. The use of at least three different waveguide widths for each Mach-Zehnder waveguide can alleviate sensitivity of filter…

QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION DEVICE AND METHOD SUITABLE FOR ESTABLISHING A GLOBAL QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION NETWORK

Granted: January 25, 2024
Application Number: 20240031139
A quantum key distribution device comprises an input signal path receiving a plurality of optical input signals from a transmitter device, an output signal path connected to the input signal path at a first end and emitting a plurality of first optical output signals at a second end, and a detector signal path connected to the input signal path at a third end and comprising a photon detector device at a fourth end opposite to the third end. The photon detector detects optical input…

INTERFEROMETER FILTERS WITH PARTIAL COMPENSATION STRUCTURE

Granted: January 25, 2024
Application Number: 20240027179
A Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) filter comprising one or more passive compensation structures are described. The passive compensation structures yield MZI filters that are intrinsically tolerant to perturbations in waveguide dimensions and/or other ambient conditions. The use of n+1 waveguide widths can mitigate n different sources of perturbation to the filter. The use of at least three different waveguide widths for each Mach-Zehnder waveguide can alleviate sensitivity of filter…

COUPLED RESONATOR PHOTON-PAIR SOURCES

Granted: January 25, 2024
Application Number: 20240027872
Techniques disclosed herein relate to photon sources with high spectral purity and high brightness. In one embodiment, a photon-pair source includes a pump waveguide, a first resonator coupled to the pump waveguide to couple pump photons from the pump waveguide into the first resonator, a second resonator coupled to the first resonator, and an output waveguide coupled to the second resonator. The second resonator is configured to convert the pump photons into photon pairs. The second…

INTERFACES, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUSES FOR CONSTRUCTING 3D AR ENVIRONMENT OVERLAYS, AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING SAME

Granted: January 25, 2024
Application Number: 20240029432
Systems, apparatuses, interfaces, and methods for implementing the systems, apparatuses, and interfaces include capturing an image, displaying the image on a display devise, scanning and identifying objects and/or attributes associated with the image and/or objects therein, generating a 3D AR environment within the display overlaid on the image, generating a ray pointer for improved interaction with the image and the generated 3D AR environment, where the environment includes virtual…

INTEGRATED PHOTODETECTOR WITH DIRECT BINNING PIXEL

Granted: January 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240019370
An integrated circuit includes a photodetection region configured to receive incident photons. The photodetection region is configured to produce a plurality of charge carriers in response to the incident photons. The integrated circuit includes at least one charge carrier storage region. The integrated circuit also includes a charge carrier segregation structure configured to selectively direct charge carriers of the plurality of charge carriers directly into the at least one charge…

INTEGRATED PHOTODETECTOR WITH DIRECT BINNING PIXEL

Granted: January 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240019370
An integrated circuit includes a photodetection region configured to receive incident photons. The photodetection region is configured to produce a plurality of charge carriers in response to the incident photons. The integrated circuit includes at least one charge carrier storage region. The integrated circuit also includes a charge carrier segregation structure configured to selectively direct charge carriers of the plurality of charge carriers directly into the at least one charge…

A QUANTUM PROCESSING SYSTEM

Granted: January 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240016069
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to quantum processing systems that include a plurality of donor atom qubits positioned in a semiconductor substrate. The system also comprises a plurality of control gates configured to control the donor atom qubits. The system further comprises an SLQD charge sensor fabricated on/in the semiconductor substrate. The SLQD charge sensor is configured to sense spin-states of two or more donor atom qubits, which are positioned within a sensing…

PREDICTIVE VIRTUAL TRAINING SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, INTERFACES, AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING SAME

Granted: January 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240013669
Apparatuses, systems, interfaces, and implementing methods including constructing training programs or routines and predictive training programs and routines implemented in a VR, AR, MR or XR environments, preparing non-predictive and/or predictive tools for use in predictive and/or non-predictive training programs or routines implemented in the VR/AR/MR/XR environments, converting non-computer assisted training programs into predictive and/or non-predictive training programs implemented…

Method and System for Solving QUBO Problems with Hybrid Classical-Quantum Solvers

Granted: January 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240013048
A computer-implemented method includes encoding a QUBO problem in a corresponding QUBO graph problem, wherein each binary variable of the QUBO problem corresponds to a node of the QUBO graph problem and edges between two nodes encode coefficients of terms containing both binary variables corresponding to the two nodes, or receiving a QUBO graph problem in a QUBO graph representation; providing the QUBO graph problem as an input to a trained graph neural network on a processing system;…

A QUANTUM PROCESSING SYSTEM

Granted: January 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240016069
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to quantum processing systems that include a plurality of donor atom qubits positioned in a semiconductor substrate. The system also comprises a plurality of control gates configured to control the donor atom qubits. The system further comprises an SLQD charge sensor fabricated on/in the semiconductor substrate. The SLQD charge sensor is configured to sense spin-states of two or more donor atom qubits, which are positioned within a sensing…

PREDICTIVE VIRTUAL TRAINING SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, INTERFACES, AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING SAME

Granted: January 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240013669
Apparatuses, systems, interfaces, and implementing methods including constructing training programs or routines and predictive training programs and routines implemented in a VR, AR, MR or XR environments, preparing non-predictive and/or predictive tools for use in predictive and/or non-predictive training programs or routines implemented in the VR/AR/MR/XR environments, converting non-computer assisted training programs into predictive and/or non-predictive training programs implemented…

Method and System for Solving QUBO Problems with Hybrid Classical-Quantum Solvers

Granted: January 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240013048
A computer-implemented method includes encoding a QUBO problem in a corresponding QUBO graph problem, wherein each binary variable of the QUBO problem corresponds to a node of the QUBO graph problem and edges between two nodes encode coefficients of terms containing both binary variables corresponding to the two nodes, or receiving a QUBO graph problem in a QUBO graph representation; providing the QUBO graph problem as an input to a trained graph neural network on a processing system;…

DIRECTED PROTEIN EVOLUTION

Granted: January 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240003886
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and compositions for determining the identity of an analyte using molecular barcodes and single-molecule directed evolution of target biomolecules (e.g., proteins or aptamers).

INTEGRATED SENSOR FOR MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SIGNAL ANALYSIS

Granted: January 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240003811
Some aspects relate to an integrated circuit, comprising at least one photodetection region configured to generate charge carriers responsive to incident photons emitted from a sample, at least one charge storage region configured to receive the charge carriers from the photodetection region, and at least one controller configured to obtain information about the incident photons, the information comprising at least one member selected from the group comprising pulse duration and…

Single-Sided Standing Wave for Exciting Trapped Ions

Granted: December 28, 2023
Application Number: 20230420241
Some embodiments in the present disclosure relate to an apparatus and methods to excite a trapped ion. A first laser beam and a second laser beam pass through at least one common lens of an objective. The two laser beams are focused by said objective at the position of the trapped ion. A moving standing wave is generated at the position of the trapped ion, which induces a force on the trapped ion. Two ions may be entangled by generating such moving standing wave at the respective…

A Whispering-Gallery Mode Optical Resonator

Granted: December 28, 2023
Application Number: 20230419150
A quantum computing system, method and computer readable storage medium involve tuning a whispering-gallery mode optical resonator to support a resonance frequency associated with a transition frequency of an atom. Operation of a laser is controlled to cause the atom to be trapped adjacent the optical resonator and within the evanescent field portion. Based on an atom presence signal from an optical atom presence detector, an indication is provided that the atom is trapped adjacent the…

MULTIPLE CAVITY-COUPLED EMITTERS FOR GENERATING A GRAPH STATE

Granted: December 28, 2023
Application Number: 20230419149
A quantum computing system comprises a plurality of photonic cavities, a plurality of coupling locations for quantum emitter positioning, a photon generator configured to supply photons to the plurality of photonic cavities, and a plurality of photon output channels downstream of the plurality of cavities to output a graph state. Each coupling location is associated with a differing one of the plurality of photonic cavities. Quantum emitters associated with each coupling location are…