US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on March 31 for "Smart hub quantum key distribution and security management in advanced networks" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,924, issued on March 31, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Smart hub quantum key distribution and security management in advanced networks" was invented by Kaveri Raman (Matawan, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Smart hub quantum key distribution (QKD) and security management in advanced networks (e.g., 5G and beyond) is presented herein. A smart hub for QKD system provisions, via a network slice of a control plane of a communication network, a group of communication entities within the communication network to facilitate, via a QKD service, a quantum key-based communication session between a pair of com...