US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Aug. 5 for "Determination of characteristics of a molecule by controlling coupling strengths between qubits of a quantum device during a series of measurements" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,354, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Determination of characteristics of a molecule by controlling coupling strengths between qubits of a quantum device during a series of measurements" was invented by Alex Retzker (Pasadena, Calif.) and Yotam Vaknin (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for modeling one or more characteristics of a molecule using a quantum device implemented on quantum hardware is disclosed. Through control, via modulation, of coupling strengths between qubits on the quantum device and a comparison to an experimentally-measured nuclear magnetic res...