ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,047, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Quantum authentication of protected resources" was invented by Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland) and Stephen Coady (Waterford, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access request to allow a requestor process to access a protected resource is received. A qubit authentication state that identifies a desired state of a qubit is sent to the requestor process. It is determined that the requestor process has caused the qubit to have the qubit authentication state. Based at least in part on determining that the requestor process has caused the qubit to have the qub...