ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,049, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ZEROPROOF LLC (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

"Systems, apparatus, and methods for generation, packaging, and secure distribution of symmetric quantum cypher keys" was invented by Robert C Hines III (Irvine, Calif.) and Scott Lazarus (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for quantum key distribution are disclosed including forming a quantum production key package with a production file name; forming a first quantum sacrificial key package with a first sacrificial file name associated with a portion of the first production file name; sending the quantum sacrificial key package...