ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,749, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Quantum-based encryption" was invented by Raghavendra Veerupakshappa (Telangana, India), Umme Kulsum Shaik (Hyderabad, India), John Dinakar Iruvanti (Telangana, India) and Nagaraja Peddi (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Arrangements for quantum-based encryption are provided. In some aspects, input data and a superposition collapse value associated with the input data may be received from a user computing device. In addition, the superposition collapse value may include a threshold percentage indicating a percentage of quantum bits to be ...