US Patent Issued to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on May 27 for "Generation of certified random numbers using an untrusted quantum computer" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,684, issued on May 27, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Generation of certified random numbers using an untrusted quantum computer" was invented by Scott Aaronson (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Classical computer systems can generate certified random bit strings using an untrusted quantum computer. The classical computer system can issue a sequence of challenges to the quantum computer, with each challenge involving execution of an apparently-random quantum circuit generated by the classical client. By executing the quantum circuits, the quantum computer can generate a ...