US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA on Feb. 18 for "Quantum key distribution system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,176, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA (Anhui, China).

"Quantum key distribution system" was invented by Shuang Wang (Anhui, China), Jiaxuan Li (Anhui, China), Yuanguanjie Fan (Anhui, China), Fengyu Lu (Anhui, China), Zhenqiang Yin (Anhui, China), Deyong He (Anhui, China), Wei Chen (Anhui, China), Zheng Zhou (Anhui, China), Guangcan Guo (Anhui, China) and Zhengfu Han (Anhui, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum key distribution system is provided, including: a sending terminal, a measurement terminal, a receiving terminal, and at least one polarization controller. The sending t...