ARQIT LIMITED Patent Application Trends in 2024

ARQIT LIMITED patent applications in 2024

Top 10 Technology Areas

• H04L9/0852 ({Quantum cryptography (transmission systems employing electromagnetic waves other than radio waves, e.g. light, infrared)
  • Count: 6 patents
  • Example: 20240129116. KEY EXCHANGE PROTOCOL FOR SATELLITE BASED QUANTUM NETWORK (ARQIT LIMITED)
• H04L9/0819 ({Key transport or distribution, i.e. key establishment techniques where one party creates or otherwise obtains a secret value, and securely transfers it to the other(s) (network architectures or network communication protocols for key distribution in a packet data network)
  • Count: 4 patents
  • Example: 20240187219. A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRUSTLESS KEY PROVISIONING (ARQIT LIMITED)
• H04L9/0855 ({involving additional nodes, e.g. quantum relays, repeaters, intermediate nodes or remote nodes})
  • Count: 3 patents
  • Example: 20240106637. QKD SWITCHING SYSTEM AND PROTOCOLS (ARQIT LIMITED)
• H04B10/70 (Photonic quantum communication)
  • Count: 3 patents
  • Example: 20240162992. A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TIME SYNCHRONISATION (ARQIT LIMITED)
• H04L9/085 ({Secret sharing or secret splitting, e.g. threshold schemes})
  • Count: 2 patents
  • Example: 20240129116. KEY EXCHANGE PROTOCOL FOR SATELLITE BASED QUANTUM NETWORK (ARQIT LIMITED)
• H04L9/0861 ({Generation of secret information including derivation or calculation of cryptographic keys or passwords})
  • Count: 2 patents
  • Example: 20240187219. A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRUSTLESS KEY PROVISIONING (ARQIT LIMITED)
• H04B10/118 (specially adapted for satellite communication)
  • Count: 2 patents
  • Example: 20240162992. A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TIME SYNCHRONISATION (ARQIT LIMITED)
• H04L45/42 (Centralised routing)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240106637. QKD SWITCHING SYSTEM AND PROTOCOLS (ARQIT LIMITED)
• H04L9/088 ({Usage controlling of secret information, e.g. techniques for restricting cryptographic keys to pre-authorized uses, different access levels, validity of crypto-period, different key- or password length, or different strong and weak cryptographic algorithms (network architectures or network communication protocols for using time-dependent keys in a packet data network)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240106641. KEY EXCHANGE PROTOCOL FOR SATELLITE BASED QUANTUM NETWORK (ARQIT LIMITED)
• H04L9/16 (the keys or algorithms being changed during operation)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240187219. A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRUSTLESS KEY PROVISIONING (ARQIT LIMITED)

Emerging Technology Areas

• H04L9/30 (Public key, i.e. encryption algorithm being computationally infeasible to invert or user's encryption keys not requiring secrecy)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240333485. QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION PROTOCOL ADAPTER (Arqit Limited)
• H04L9/0833 ({involving conference or group key (network architectures or network communication protocols for key management in group communication in a packet data network)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240073004. SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GROUP KEY FORMATION (ARQIT LIMITED)
• H04L9/0838 ({Key agreement, i.e. key establishment technique in which a shared key is derived by parties as a function of information contributed by, or associated with, each of these (network architectures or network communication protocols for key exchange in a packet data network)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240072996. SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR KEY ESTABLISHMENT (ARQIT LIMITED)
• H04J14/0305 ({in end terminals})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240348432. WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXING FOR AN OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM (Arqit Limited)
• H04B10/1123 (Line-of-sight transmission over an extended range)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240171275. A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BEAM ALIGNMENT (ARQIT LIMITED)
• H04L9/0869 ({involving random numbers or seeds})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240204998. RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION IN QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION (ARQIT LIMITED)
• H04L9/0858 ({Details about key distillation or coding, e.g. reconciliation, error correction, privacy amplification, polarisation coding or phase coding})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240204998. RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION IN QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION (ARQIT LIMITED)
• H04L9/16 (the keys or algorithms being changed during operation)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240187219. A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRUSTLESS KEY PROVISIONING (ARQIT LIMITED)
• H04L9/088 ({Usage controlling of secret information, e.g. techniques for restricting cryptographic keys to pre-authorized uses, different access levels, validity of crypto-period, different key- or password length, or different strong and weak cryptographic algorithms (network architectures or network communication protocols for using time-dependent keys in a packet data network)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240106641. KEY EXCHANGE PROTOCOL FOR SATELLITE BASED QUANTUM NETWORK (ARQIT LIMITED)
• H04L45/42 (Centralised routing)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240106637. QKD SWITCHING SYSTEM AND PROTOCOLS (ARQIT LIMITED)

Top Inventors

• Omar Iqbal (7 patents)
• Andrew Yeomans (6 patents)
• Barry Childe (3 patents)
• David Webb (3 patents)
• David Williams (3 patents)
• James Brown (2 patents)
• Alexander Koehler-Sidki (2 patents)
• Daryl BURNS (2 patents)
• Daryl Burn (1 patent)
• David Willams (1 patent)

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