US Patent Issued to Accenture Global Solutions on July 29 for "Enhanced cryptographic hash digests using quantum computing" (Virginia, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,285, issued on July 29, was assigned to Accenture Global Solutions Ltd. (Dublin).

"Enhanced cryptographic hash digests using quantum computing" was invented by Johannes Jacobus Louw Basson (Arlington, Va.) and Benjamin Glen McCarty (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for enhancing cryptographic hash digests. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a hash digest that represents a data input. Symbols in the hash digest are divided into a number of groups of equal size. Each group is mapped to a respective point on a Bloch sphere. A quantum system comprising multiple qubits is initialized by ini...