ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,792, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Arqit Ltd. (London).

"System and method for key establishment" was invented by David Webb (Sussex, Great Britain), Daryl Burns (Gloustershire, Great Britain) and David Williams (Surrey, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of establishing a key between a first and a second device in a network including a first and a second key node, the first and second key nodes with access to a same set of keys, the method including receiving, at the first device, data representative of first key establishment data from the first key node and the second device for calcula...