ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,273, issued on April 22, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for correcting polarization distortion of faraday rotating mirror in plug-and-play quantum key distribution system" was invented by JaYeong Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hojae Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Byungkyu Ahn (Seoul, South Korea), Byounghoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Sangrim Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method and device for correcting an error in a communication system, the method including: transmitting, to another device, data encrypted based on key information. The key information is...