US Patent Issued to DigiCert on July 14 for "Quantum vault for protecting secrets against quantum computing" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,781, issued on July 14, was assigned to DigiCert Inc. (Lehi, Utah).

"Quantum vault for protecting secrets against quantum computing" was invented by Avesta Hojjati (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for managing a quantum vault for storing a secret include, responsive to a determination of a first level of quantum computing processing capability, defining a first encryption algorithm for the quantum vault such that the first encryption algorithm is sufficient to protect against the first level of quantum computing, such that a first layer of the quantum vault is configured with the first encryption algo...