ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,341, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to QuNu Labs Private Ltd. (Bengarluru, India).

"Method and system for generating decoy and signal pulses for quantum key distribution protocol" was invented by Dilip Kumar Singh (Gurgaon, India), Krishnan Rajesh Kumar (Bengaluru, India) and Shashank Gupta (Fatehpur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating decoy and signal pulses for a Decoy differential phase shift (DDPS) quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol includes emitting laser light from a laser source and modulating intensity of the laser light using at least one intensity modulator. The intensity of the laser light i...