ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,090, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"On-demand co-processing resources for quantum computing" was invented by Milan Krneta (Seattle), Eric M Kessler (New Rochelle, Wash.) and Christian Bruun Madsen (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An algorithm execution management system of a provider network may receive a request from a user for executing an algorithm using different types of computing resources, including classical computing resources and quantum computing resources. The request may indicate a container that includes the algorithm code and dependencies such as libraries for execu...