ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,622, issued on July 1, was assigned to Qubit Moving and Storage LLC (Franconia, N.H.).
"System and method for generating and sharing pairs of random numbers" was invented by Gary Vacon (East Falmouth, Mass.) and Kristin A. Rauschenbach (Franconia, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for sharing random numbers includes generating pairs of photons at random times, wherein first ones of pairs of photons and second ones of pairs of photons are generated at a same time. The generated pairs are directed to a first pair of receivers during a first time segment. A shared random number is generated using the first pair o...