US Patent Issued to Arqit on March 18 for "Quantum streaming" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,990, issued on March 18, was assigned to Arqit Ltd. (London).

"Quantum streaming" was invented by David Williams (Surrey, Great Britain) and Barry Childe (Sussex, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method(s), system(s), apparatus are provided for quantum safe quantum streaming between a first endpoint device and second endpoint device via a server of a quantum cloud platform. Splitting, at the first endpoint device, a data item into a plurality of data shards that allow reconstruction of the data item. Encrypting, at the first endpoint device, each of the data shards separately using a first cryptographic key shared betwee...