US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on March 11 for "Systems and methods for classical-quantum encryption and decryption" (Missouri, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,299, issued on March 11, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for classical-quantum encryption and decryption" was invented by Jeff J. Stapleton (O'Fallon, Mo.) and Richard Orlando Toohey (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for classical-quantum encryption and decryption. An example method for classical-quantum encryption includes receiving, by communications hardware, a symmetric key and a plaintext message, generating, by a function generator, an analytic function using the symmetric key and the plaintext mess...