ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,955, issued on March 3, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for using auxiliary information being transmitted from forward direction of bidirectional quantum key distribution procedure in communication system" was invented by Jayeong Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Byoung Hoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hojae Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Sangrim Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Byungkyu Ahn (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system supporting quantum key distribution is disclosed. A method performed by a first device comprises transmitting or receiving a random access (RA) pr...