ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,518, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Qubit Moving and Storage LLC (Franconia, N.H.).

"Method of privately sharing correlated state information on demand" was invented by Gary Vacon (East Falmouth, Mass.) and Kristin A. Rauschenbach (Franconia, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of privately sharing correlated state information on demand includes sharing a pair of entangled qubits between two nodes that are connected by a communication channel, wherein one qubit of the pair of entangled qubits is received by one of the two nodes and the other qubit of the pair of entangled qubits is received by the other of the two nodes....