ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,902, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for single chip quantum random number generation" was invented by Masoud Vakili (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for quantum random number generation (QRNG). An example method includes generating, by encoding circuitry of a QRNG chip, a set of time-bin qubits based on a first optical path length. The example method further includes transmitting, by the encoding circuitry of the QRNG chip, the set of time-bin qubits over an optical line. The exam...