ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,262, issued on June 2, was assigned to Quantum Technologies Laboratories Inc. (New York).

"Redundant quantum random number generator in a quantum communication system" was invented by Peter Boutan (North Bay Village, Fla.), Kyle Kroskey (Chesapeake, Va.), David Johns (Dayton, Nev.) and Alain Obadia (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments generally use multiple QRNGs contained within independent servers operating in a round-robin fashion via an Application Programming Interface (API) such that the quality of the random number bitstream can be enhanced due to a sum of entropy being gathered across multiple QRN...