ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,677, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Red Hat LLC (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Archiving files via superdense coding" was invented by Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland) and Stephen Coady (Waterford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment includes a method for quantum-mechanically archiving data. The method includes receiving, by a quantum computing device (QD), a request to store the data. The data may be associated with a file identifier (ID). A set of bits encodes the data in a classical encoding and the set of bits has a first cardinality. In response to receiving the request to store the data, generating, the QD may generat...