US Patent Issued to D-WAVE SYSTEMS on Jan. 20 for "Systems and methods for performing quantum evolution in quantum computation" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,613, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to D-WAVE SYSTEMS INC. (Burnaby, Canada).

"Systems and methods for performing quantum evolution in quantum computation" was invented by Sheir Yarkoni (Vancouver, Canada), Trevor Michael Lanting (Vancouver, Canada), Kelly T. R. Boothby (Vancouver, Canada), Andrew Douglas King (Vancouver, Canada), Evgeny A. Andriyash (Vancouver, Canada) and Mohammad H. Amin (Coquitlam, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computational method via a hybrid processor comprising an analog processor and a digital processor includes determining a first classical spin configuration via the digital processor, determinin...