US Patent Issued to Q*BIRD on Aug. 11 for "Method and system for determining a round-trip latency of a quantum communication channel" (Dutch, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,670, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Q*BIRD B.V. (Delft, Netherlands).

"Method and system for determining a round-trip latency of a quantum communication channel" was invented by Joshua Alexander Slater (Vienna), Remon Ciaran Berrevoets (Delft, Netherlands) and Thomas Middelburg (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a round-trip latency of a communication channel in a system between a first device and a second device, comprising: setting an estimated round-trip latency binary value by the first device that represents a latency measured in clock cycles; generating and sending a first test signa...