US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 26 for "Quantum key distribution network management service" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,917, issued on May 26, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Quantum key distribution network management service" was invented by Xinhua Ling (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method enabling a management service to dynamically select a key relay technique between at least a first relay technique that uses more quantum key distribution (QKD) bits and a second relay technique that uses less QKD key bits and select a path for relaying a key between a source QKD node and a destination QKD node. Respective QKD nodes may relay information about QKD key bit inventory to the management service, wherei...