US Patent Issued to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS on Sept. 22 for "Quantum timestamping" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,682, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC (London).

"Quantum timestamping" was invented by Catherine White (London Greater London, Great Britain) and Claire Doyle (London Greater London, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of timestamping an item at a timestamping device is provided. The timestamping devices comprising a classical computing device and a quantum computing device. The method comprises at the classical computing device obtaining the item to be timestamped and determining an input token based on the received item. The method further comprises at the quantum computing devic...