ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,617, issued on May 27, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System for cloud computing security using a quantum encryption algorithm" was invented by Krishna Rangarao Mamadapur (Pune, India) and Jigesh Rajendra Safary (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for cloud computing security using a quantum encryption algorithm. In particular, the system may comprise a quantum computing system that receives target data that has been encrypted using a first encryption algorithm. The quantum computing system may encrypt the target data using a second encryption algorithm, which may include...