ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,426, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF TELEMATICS (Karnataka, India).

"Apparatus and method for adjusting the phase-modulator's modulating signal time reference in a quantum-key-distribution system" was invented by Prasanta Halder (New Delhi), Vivek Kumar (New Delhi), Roshan Lal Sharma (New Delhi), Atul Kumar Gupta (New Delhi) and Prashant Kumar Rathore (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the field Quantum Key distribution (QKD) and discloses an apparatus (100) and method (300) for adjusting the phase modulator's modulating signal time reference in a phase-based QKD s...