ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,020, issued on March 11, was assigned to CLASSIQ TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Detecting a function section in a representation of a quantum circuit" was invented by Amir Naveh (Haifa, Israel), Shmuel Ur (Shorashim, Israel), Eyal Cornfeld (Ramat Gan, Israel), Ofek Kirzner (Haifa, Israel) and Nir Minerbi (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and product comprising: obtaining a representation of a quantum circuit; determining that a qubit is a candidate auxiliary qubit by estimating that a state of the qubit at a first cycle is identical to a state of the qubit at a second cycle; identifying a fun...