ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,228, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods, systems, and apparatus for enabling and managing quantum networks" was invented by Chonggang Wang (Princeton, N.J.) and Shamim Rahman (Cote St. Luc, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Centralized quantum capability management may be provided. A quantum network architecture may include a centralized quantum network manager. A quantum policy management may be controlled by quantum network manager. Quantum capability registration, solicitation, subscription, and discovery may be provided. Centralized quantum connection creation and m...