US Patent Issued to Red Hat on March 17 for "Media stream transmission protection through QKD networks" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,750, issued on March 17, was assigned to Red Hat LLC (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Media stream transmission protection through QKD networks" was invented by Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland) and Stephen Coady (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum computing device determines that an eavesdropper has attempted to intercept a key on a first quantum communication channel that is using a first quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol, wherein media is being transmitted over the first quantum communication channel between a first entity and a second entity. The quantum computing device accesses a data structure comprising a plurality of r...