US Patent Issued to KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION on Feb. 10 for "Management apparatus for quantum key, and management method quantum key" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,342, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Management apparatus for quantum key, and management method quantum key" was invented by Chan Kyun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Yong Hwan Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyu Seok Shim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Won Hyuk Lee (Sejong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a scheme of managing and operating a multi-class quantum key provided in a unit of a quantum key length in a quantum cryptography communication network."

The patent was filed on Nov. 29, 2023, under Application No. ...