ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,949, issued on March 17, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Quantum security system and method for classical and quantum networks" was invented by Moshiur Rahman (Marlboro, N.J.), Venson Shaw (Kirkland, Wash.), Eshrat Huda (Hillsborough, N.J.) and David H. Lu (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device with a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitates performance of operations, including: automatically detecting an intrusion of a secur...