ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,129, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Md.) and GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Gaithersburg, Md.).

"Systems and methods for quantum-enabled error correction" was invented by Ivan Alexandrovish Burenkov (Boyds, Md.) and Sergey Vladimirovich Polyakov (Gaithersburg, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for quantum-enabled error correction includes a receiver configured to receive an optical signal and detect photons. The optical signal includes encoded information that includes communication alphabet symbols. The receive...