ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,776, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Md.) and POSTECH RESEARCH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea).

"Systems and methods for noise-resistant quantum communication using hyperentanglement" was invented by Giuliano Scarcelli (Washington), Yoon-Ho Kim (Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea) and Jin-Hun Kim (Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for noise-resistant quantum communication using hyperentanglement includes a quantum system that includes a plurality of qubits, a processor, and a memory. The memory includes instructions...