ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,714, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to MARBEUF CONSEIL ET RECHERCHE (Paris).

"Transmission of a message by quantum communication with eavesdropping detection" was invented by Bruno Sangle-Ferriere (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum communication system (1) has an emitter (2) of entangled photons, having a source configured in order to generate at least one pair of entangled photons comprising a first photon (P1) emitted on a first propagation path (D1) and simultaneously a second photon (P2) emitted on a second propagation path (D2) different to the first propagation path; and a first receiver (3) arranged on the first ...