ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,756, issued on March 17, was assigned to Quantinuum Ltd (London).

"Cryptographic systems and non-deterministic random number generators based on quantum systems" was invented by Mario Berta (Los Angeles), Florian Curchod (Trumpington, Great Britain), Cameron Foreman (Herne Bay, Great Britain), Sherilyn Wright (London), Alec Edgington (London), Yui Chi Yeung (Cumnor, Great Britain), Hyejung Jee (London), Mafalda Ludovino Almeida (Cambridge, Great Britain), Matthew Hoban (Oxford, Great Britain) and Elizabeth Lee (Hounslow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to protocols and systems for generating rand...