ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,596, issued on July 7, was assigned to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. (New York).

"Systems and methods for source-independent quantum position verification" was invented by Wen Yu Kon (Singapore), Ignatius William Primaatmaja (Singapore), Kaushik Chakraborty (Singapore), Ci Wen Lim (Singapore) and Marco Pistoia (Amawalk, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include: a first verifier receiving a request for position verification comprising a claimed position from a prover electronic device; the first verifier generating two first bitstrings and sending one of the bitstrings to a second verifier; the prover preparing two entangled...