US Patent Issued to Colorado School of Mines on July 29 for "Systems and methods for accelerated quantum optimization" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,723, issued on July 29, was assigned to Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for accelerated quantum optimization" was invented by Eliot Kapit (Golden, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods for quantum optimization include applying an optimization algorithm to a problem Hamiltonian (defined by qubit interaction constraint coefficients based on a binary optimization problem to find a local minimum state with initial total energy). The method further includes selecting a target energy that is less than the initial energy based on the binary optimization problem, modifying a subset of the qubit i...