US Patent Issued to Aliro Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Operating a layered quantum networking environment with entanglement swap operations" (New York, Washington, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,586, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Aliro Technologies Inc. (Brighton, Mass.).

"Operating a layered quantum networking environment with entanglement swap operations" was invented by Bruno Rijsman (Seattle), Michael Cubeddu (New York) and Matthew Skrzypczyk (Downers Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At a first node in a network, a first (second) message is received indicating that a first (second) quantum element at the first node is entangled with a quantum element at a second (third) node in the network. The first (second) message comprises a first (second) identifier that uniquely identifies one of a plurality of entan...