US Patent Issued to Interwise, AT&T Intellectual Property I on Feb. 17 for "Out-of-band quantum key distribution using cellular SMS" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,381, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Interwise Ltd. (Airport City, Israel) and AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Out-of-band quantum key distribution using cellular SMS" was invented by Tomer Levkovitch (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ido Shargil (Shoham, Israel), Lior Horn (Yokneam Illit, Israel), Mark Rasin (Mazkeret Batya, Israel), David Bachar (Hod-Hasharon, Israel), David Khanin (Ashdod, Israel) and William R. Trost (Mequon, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Out-of-band quantum key distribution using cellular SMS can include receiving, from a user device, a client identifier that identifies the user device and a first key ide...