US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE on July 8 for "Apparatus and method for mutual authentication of quantum entities based on measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,900, issued on July 8, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for mutual authentication of quantum entities based on measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution" was invented by Chang-Ho Hong (Daejeon, South Korea), Se-Wan Ji (Daejeon, South Korea), O-Sung Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea), Youn-Chang Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea), Eun-Ji Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Seok Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Haeng-Seok Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Dae-Sung Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jin-Gak Jang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed her...