US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on Sept. 23 for "SHA-256 quantum circuit design apparatus and method" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,188, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"SHA-256 quantum circuit design apparatus and method" was invented by Jong Heon Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein SHA-256 quantum circuit design apparatus and method. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided an SHA-256 quantum circuit design apparatus comprising: a reception unit configured to receive an SHA-256 quantum circuit having a length of a critical path consisting of six adders; and a design unit configured to design a first SHA-256 quan...