US Patent Issued to Airbus Defence and Space on Aug. 18 for "Method for transmitting content using a quantum key distribution network" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,719, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Airbus Defence and Space SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Method for transmitting content using a quantum key distribution network" was invented by Marc Cartigny (Elancourt, France), Maxime Labonne (Elancourt, France), Jorge Lopez-Coronado (Elancourt, France) and Claude Poletti (Elancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transmitting content (A) in a communication network (N) comprising a quantum key distribution network (QKDN) for keys, called quantum keys (Knj), the communication network comprising a key management device (KM) connected to transmission nodes (N1, N2, N3, N4, N5) an...