US Patent Issued to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York, University of Connecticut on May 5 for "System and method for quantum-secure microgrids" (Connecticut, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,133, issued on May 5, was assigned to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Albany, N.Y.) and University of Connecticut (Storrs, Conn.).

"System and method for quantum-secure microgrids" was invented by Peng Zhang (Storrs, Conn.), Zefan Tang (Stony Brook, N.Y.) and Walter Krawec (Storrs, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum-key distributed (QKD)-enabled communication architecture it devises for networked microgrids (NMGs). A real-time QKD-enabled NMGs testbed built in an RTDS environment, and a novel two-level key pool sharing (TLKPS) strategy it designs to improve the system resilience against cyberat...