ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,518, issued on July 21, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Quantum proof of consent for orchestrating event processing across a distributed network" was invented by Shailendra Singh (Thane West, India), Divya Nagarajan (Chennai, India), Gowri Sundar Suriyanarayanan (Chennai, India) and Maneesh Kumar Sethia (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing platform may receive an event processing request, and generate a corresponding a first qubit and second qubit. The computing platform may generate, based on the first qubit, a first quhash corresponding to the first qubit. The computing platform may...