US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 15 for "Systems and methods for providing user authentication for quantum-entangled communications in a cloud environment" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,921, issued on July 15, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for providing user authentication for quantum-entangled communications in a cloud environment" was invented by Santanu Ganguly (Ashford, Great Britain) and D. Brice Achkir (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a system and method of establishing secure communications between nodes in a cloud environment. The method includes receiving a registration of a first user at a quantum processor service provider, receiving at the quantum processor service provider a request for authentication of the first registered...