US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY on Aug. 25 for "Detecting eavesdropping in long distance quantum key distribution" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,667, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY (Flagstaff, Ariz.).

"Detecting eavesdropping in long distance quantum key distribution" was invented by Bertrand F. Cambou (Flagstaff, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for performing secure quantum key distribution (QKD) while detecting photon interception and eavesdropping. A first computing device generates a challenge set using a secret seed, applies the challenges to its CRP, and receives an ordered set n responses. Those responses are sent under a QKD protocol. The second computing device generates th...