US Patent Issued to THE BOEING, THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE OF THE OLD SCHOOLS on July 7 for "Secure classical optical communication using quantum techniques" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,867, issued on July 7, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.) and THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE OF THE OLD SCHOOLS (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Secure classical optical communication using quantum techniques" was invented by Jeffrey H. Hunt (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Yupeng Gong (Cambridge, Great Britain), Richard Vincent Penty (Cambridge, Great Britain), Ian White (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Adrian Wonfor (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for, and methods of, detecting an attack on an optical communication channel are presented. The techniques can incl...