ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,130, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS Ltd. (Dublin).

"Cryptographic hash digests from quantum information" was invented by Johannes Jacobus Louw Basson (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for generating a cryptographic hash digest. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining data representing a quantum circuit. An initial quantum state vector is generated, where the initial quantum state vector includes an input quantum state vector for the quantum circuit. The initial quantum state vector is used to generate one or more evolved quantum state vectors, where each e...