ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,446, issued on July 21, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Channel coding over quantum channels" was invented by Stephen Magno DiAdamo (Munich), Lakshika Rathi (Jodhpur, India) and Alireza Shabani (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing communication over a quantum channel. The method includes generating a first set of quantum channel codes configured to encode a message to obtain a quantum encoded message, supplying the first set of quantum channel codes to an encoder, generating a second set of quantum channel codes configured to decode the quantum encoded message, and supplying the ...