ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,400, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Quantum Optics Jena GmbH (Jena, Germany).
"Quantum key distribution" was invented by Rene Heilmann (Jena, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for key generation with quantum key distribution including: i) generation of entangled photon pairs; ii) transmission of the photons to a first and second receiver; iii) measurement of photons at the first receiver to generate a first raw key and first receiver data and measuring photons at the second receiver to generate a second raw key and second receiver data; iv) generation of a first sifted key at the first receiver and at the second re...