US Patent Issued to Red Hat on May 13 for "Cryptographic key management for distributed quantum computing systems" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,708, issued on May 13, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Cryptographic key management for distributed quantum computing systems" was invented by Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland) and Stephen Coady (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a first set of quantum hardware (QH) that includes a first set of qubits, a second set of QH that includes a second set of qubits, and a third set of QH. The first set of qubits encodes a first portion of a cryptographic key (CK). The second set of qubits encodes a second portion of the CK. In response to receiving an access request, the third set of QH receives from th...