US Patent Issued to National University of Singapore on Nov. 4 for "Method for detecting blinding attacks on photodetectors in a quantum cryptography system" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,791, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to National University of Singapore (Singapore).

"Method for detecting blinding attacks on photodetectors in a quantum cryptography system" was invented by Lijiong Shen (Singapore) and Christian Kurtsiefer (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of identifying occurrence of a blinding attack in a quantum cryptography system, and a receiver for a quantum cryptography. The method comprises the steps of providing a light emitter at a receiver of the quantum cryptography system, wherein at least a portion of light emitted from the light emitter is detectable by a single photon detector of the...