US Patent Issued to BULL on May 13 for "Method for transforming a quantum circuit while minimizing the CNOT-cost" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,534, issued on May 13, was assigned to BULL SAS (Les Clayes sous Bois, France).

"Method for transforming a quantum circuit while minimizing the CNOT-cost" was invented by Arnaud Gazda (Versailles, France) and Simon Martiel (Versailles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure refers to method for converting an input quantum circuit comprising gates into an output quantum circuit compliant with execution constraints, comprising: determining if a front layer comprises single-qubit gates, and updating the front layer; reiterating the determining step as long as the front layer comprises single-qubit gates; identifying in the...