US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY, Brown University on Sept. 8 for "Error management for long distance quantum key distribution and symmetrical key distribution" (Arizona, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,351, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and Brown University (Providence, R.I.).

"Error management for long distance quantum key distribution and symmetrical key distribution" was invented by Bertrand F. Cambou (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Jeffrey Hoffstein (Providence, R.I.), Dina Ghanaimiandoab (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Brit Riggs (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Ian Burke (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and Julie B. Heynssens (Flagstaff, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for performing secure quantum key distribution (QKD) over noisy channels are disclosed. A first...