US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Aug. 12 for "Quantum key distribution system and operation method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,630, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Quantum key distribution system and operation method thereof" was invented by Kyongchun Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Chun Ju Youn (Daejeon, South Korea), Joong-Seon Choe (Daejeon, South Korea), Minchul Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Byung-seok Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum key distribution system using an RFI (reference frame independent) QKD (quantum key distribution) protocol includes a quantum channel transmitter that generates a first quantum signal including quantum informati...