ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,208, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Corp. (Bethesda, Md.).

"Multiplexed quantum communication and remote sensing" was invented by Joseph Robert Buck Jr. (Superior, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are various techniques, protocols, and systems for providing enhanced quantum communications and remote sensing. In one example, a method includes generating a transmission signal by at least projecting qubits encoding payload data onto a physical carrier using at least one multiplexing scheme selected from among a plurality of multiplexing schemes, and transmitting, by the physical carrier, the trans...