US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on July 29 for "Providing quantum key distribution key delivery proof of origin and transit" (Dutch, American, German, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,276, issued on July 29, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Providing quantum key distribution key delivery proof of origin and transit" was invented by Gert Grammel (Ditzingen, Germany), Jason R. Pascucci (Milford, Mass.), Melchior Dirk Frederik Aelmans (Voorschoten, Netherlands) and Sabyasachi Mukhopadhyay (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may generate a first polynomial and a second polynomial, and may generate, based on the first polynomial, a primary path from a first network device to a second network device via a first set of intermediate network devices. The device may generate,...