US Patent Issued to QTI on March 24 for "Quantum key distribution transmitter" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,373, issued on March 24, was assigned to QTI SRL (Florence, Italy).

"Quantum key distribution transmitter" was invented by Davide Bacco (Codevigo, Italy), Francesco Saverio Cataliotti (Florence, Italy), Paolo De Natale (Prato, Italy), Tommaso Occhipinti (Vicenza, Italy), Ilaria Vagniluca (Florence, Italy) and Alessandro Zavatta (Florence, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum key distribution transmitter for sending a quantum key via a quantum channel via N-dimensional protocol, including a p-dimensional time-bin protocol, includes: a pulsed laser configured to emit a train of laser pulses, each pulse having a random phase ...