ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,779, issued on March 25, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"TechWiki-computer diagnostics using quantum annealing and blockchain framework" was invented by Avinash Nigudkar (Mumbai, India) and Vijay Kumar Battiprolu (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum computing system for determining diagnostic solutions for detected faults in computing devices using at least quantum annealing is described. The quantum computing system takes advantage of superposition and entanglement properties of qubits. A plurality of qubits is initialized into states representing historical data associated with histo...