ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,191, issued on March 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Assisted composition of quantum algorithms" was invented by Yunong Shi (Stanford, Conn.) and Saravanakumar Shanmugam Sakthivadivel (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum programming environment may include an assisted composition system to assist the composition of quantum objects. The assisted composition system may receive a partial portion of a quantum object that is being composed but not yet fully composed by a user. The assisted composition system may determine a first abstract representation of the partial portion of the quantu...