MUMBAI, India, June 27 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202321087619 A) filed by Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Maharashtra, on Dec. 21, 2023, for 'method and system for implementing density functional theory using quantum processors.'

Inventor(s) include Mukherjee, Anirban; Gopal, Ananthakrishna; and Banerjee, Ritam.

The application for the patent was published on June 27, under issue no. 26/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Conventional methods implement Density Functional Theory (DFT) simulations on classical processors which is time consuming. The disclosure relates to method and system for implementing DFT on quantum processors. Initially, atomic coord...