US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College, Technische Universiteit Delft on Feb. 10 for "Efficient quantum voting with information-theoretic security" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,340, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.) and Technische Universiteit Delft (Delft, Netherlands).

"Efficient quantum voting with information-theoretic security" was invented by Emil Timergalievich Khabiboulline (Cambridge, Mass.), Mikhail D. Lukin (Cambridge, Mass.), Juspreet Singh Sandhu (Boston) and Johannes Borregaard (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Efficient quantum voting with information-theoretic security is provided. A tally quantum node generates a first plurality of ballot quantum states encoding a first bit string, each of the first plurality of b...