ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,632, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY (Suzhou, China).

"Resource allocation method and system in quantum key distribution optical network" was invented by Bowen Chen (Suzhou, China), Weike Ma (Suzhou, China), Ling Liu (Suzhou, China), Hong Chen (Suzhou, China), Mingyi Gao (Suzhou, China) and Gangxiang Shen (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a resource allocation method and system in a quantum key distribution optical network. The method includes steps of: setting a topological structure of a quantum key distribution optical network, and initializing parameters in the topological ...