US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on June 23 for "Authentication response verification using qubits and quantum channel" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,772, issued on June 23, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Authentication response verification using qubits and quantum channel" was invented by Alexander Hunt (Tygelsjo, Sweden), Hakan Englund (Lund, Sweden), Per Stahl (Klagshamn, Sweden) and Andreas Kristensson (Sodra Sandby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (100) for performing an authentication procedure between a verifying device and a responding device is disclosed, the verifying and responding devices being provisioned with security credentials. The method, performed by the verifying device, comprises generating an authenticatio...