ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,478, issued on May 12, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Corp. (Bethesda, Md.).
"Quantum resistant ledger for secure communications" was invented by Ambrose Kam (Westampton, N.J.) and Alexander Richard Vesey (Newburg, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a method includes identifying, by a first network component, data and determining a security level from a plurality of security levels associated with the data. The method also includes determining an encryption scheme from a plurality of encryption schemes to apply to the data and applying, using a Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL), the encryption scheme to the d...