US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on May 13 for "Method and apparatus for key relay control based on software defined networking in quantum key distribution network" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,710, issued on May 13, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for key relay control based on software defined networking in quantum key distribution network" was invented by Tae Sang Choi (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jeong Yun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for key relay control based on software-defined networking in a quantum key distribution network. A method of controlling key relay in a quantum key distribution network (QKDN) according to an embodiment of the present disclo...