US Patent Issued to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS on Sept. 22 for "Satellite-based QKD" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,625, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC (London).

"Satellite-based QKD" was invented by Andrew Lord (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is herein disclosed a computer-implemented method of optimizing a QKD system, the QKD system being adapted to perform a QKD session that involves the propagation of a plurality of photons from a first device to a second device, one of the first and second devices being located aboard a satellite in orbit, the method including running a machine learning algorithm, inputs of the machine learning algorithm comprising one or more values of one or more of the foll...