Nick Peters, a 1999 physics major graduate of Hillsdale College and the son of Professor Jim Peters, has won one of the 2012 Edison Patent awards given by the Research & Development Council of New Jersey. Peters, along with Applied Communication Sciences and inventors Thomas Chapuran, Matthew Goodman, and Robert Runser, received a patent award in the emerging technology category for “Distributable Quantum Relay Architecture” (U.S. Patent 8,103,172), an invention that enables the use of widely distributed quantum relay or repeater stations along a fiber communications link or network to significantly increase the distance over which quantum communications can be established in a practical network.

Listen to Nick discuss his achievement in this video: