ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,717, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to PERISO ShPK (Durres, Albania).

"Methods and systems for performing secure transactions" was invented by Antonio La Gatta (Gandria, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a remote quantum terminal configured for generating random numbers, storing the random numbers, and transmitting the random numbers to a local quantum terminal via a quantum channel that uses a perfect cipher or a quasi-perfect cipher and a quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol for encoding the random numbers as quantum information. A local quantum terminal is configured for receiving the quantum informa...