US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on June 23 for "Quantum wrapper networking" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,459, issued on June 23, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Quantum wrapper networking" was invented by Sung-Joo Ben Yoo (Davis, Calif.) and Prem Kumar (Skokie, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a system and method for transporting quantum datagrams over a network. During operation, a quantum datagram is obtained at a network node. The quantum datagram can include a wrapper and an optical quantum data payload, with the wrapper comprising classical non-quantum optical bits and the quantum data payload comprising quantum bits (qubits). The system separates the wrappe...