ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,820, issued on April 21, was assigned to THALES (Meudon, France).
"System and method for generating a secure secret key" was invented by Benoit Tranier (Toulouse, France) and Jean Didier Gayrard (Toulouse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a secure secret key, includes the following steps: A. receiving, in a communication station referred to as the transmitting station, a first secret key by way of a quantum encryption channel via satellite, the first secret key also being transmitted to at least one other communication station by way of the quantum encryption channel; B. generating, in the transmitting s...