ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,623, issued on July 1, was assigned to ABN AMRO BANK N.V. (Amsterdam).
"Orchestrated quantum key distribution" was invented by Daphne Ma (Amsterdam), Dimitri Valerie Van Esch (Amsterdam) and Johannes Adrianus Hendrikus Roling (Amsterdam).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Key distribution comprises authenticating and registering locations of first and second terminals to a quantum identify provider (QIP); and a quantum location service provider (QLSP); determining security consensus between the first and second terminal and the QIP that identifies a first and second quantum key service provider (QKSP); executing a first key generation proc...