ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,042, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences (Beijing).

"Quantum secure direct communication method and apparatus based on one-way transmission, device and system" was invented by Guilu Long (Beijing), Dong Pan (Beijing), Penghao Niu (Beijing), Haoran Zhang (Beijing), Feihao Zhang (Beijing), Min Wang (Beijing), Chao Zheng (Beijing) and Xiuwei Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a quantum secure direct communication method and apparatus based on a one-way transmission, a device and a system. The transmitting terminal performs the error-correction an...