US Patent Issued to Terra Quantum on March 3 for "Quantum key distribution device and method suitable for establishing a global quantum key distribution network" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,956, issued on March 3, was assigned to Terra Quantum AG (St. Gallen, Switzerland).

"Quantum key distribution device and method suitable for establishing a global quantum key distribution network" was invented by Valerii M. Vinokur (St. Gallen, Switzerland), Nikita S. Kirsanov (St. Gallen, Switzerland), Gordey B. Lesovik (St. Gallen, Switzerland), Pavel Sekatski (St. Gallen, Switzerland), Alexander Kolybelnikov (St. Gallen, Switzerland), Valeria Pastushenko (St. Gallen, Switzerland) and Alexey Kodukhov (St. Gallen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum key distribution device comprises an input signal path receiving a ...