ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,633, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to UNIVERSITAT WIEN (Vienna) and SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN (Singapore).

"Secure probabilistic one-time program by quantum state distribution" was invented by Marie-Christine Rohsner (Vienna), Philip Walther (Maria Enzersdorf, Austria), Tiago Barbin Batalhao (Singapore), Joshua Alexander Kettlewell (Singapore) and Joseph Fitzsimons (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system for executing a one-time program comprising at least one instruction operating on at least one input value (a, b) and returning at least one output value (O), wherein each instruction of the ...