ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,645, issued on May 6, was assigned to QDS Holdings Inc. (Rapid City, S.D.).

"Systems and methods for securing a quantum-safe digital network environment" was invented by Tilo Alexander Kunz (Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Canada), Gary Paul Swatton (Phoenix) and William Arthur Yakamovich (Fall River, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure digital network environment is provided by integrating OTP keys as part of quantum-safe data systems solutions (QPN Solutions), including the use of one-time-pad (OTP) keys to encrypt data, support multi-factor authentication and secure all communications between devices in the secure digital network ...