ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,843, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Backbone networks for hybrid quantum data transmission" was invented by Francesco Vista (Barletta, Italy), Dan C. Holme (Worthing, Great Britain) and Stephen DiAdamo (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment uses entanglement and quantum teleportation to build a quantum backbone network. A network interface interconnects packetized quantum networks with entanglement-based quantum backbone networks."

The patent was filed on April 2, 2024, under Application No. 18/624,368.

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