US Patent Issued to University of Central Florida Research Foundation on Feb. 10 for "Quantum key distribution system to overcome intercept-resend and detector-control quantum hacking" (American, Egyptian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,343, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Quantum key distribution system to overcome intercept-resend and detector-control quantum hacking" was invented by Salem F. Hegazy (Giza, Egypt) and Bahaa E. A. Saleh (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum key distribution system may include a transceiver including a state randomizer to impart a random state transformation to one or more qubits of a generated faint pulse and a quantum bit encoder to reflect the faint pulse back to the transceiver with one or more encoded bits. The transceiver may receive a...