US Patent Issued to Entanglement on July 22 for "Method and apparatus for logistics management using quantum computing" (New York, Washington, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,458, issued on July 22, was assigned to Entanglement Inc. (Miami, La.).

"Method and apparatus for logistics management using quantum computing" was invented by Jason Turner (New York, N.Y.), William J. Haynes II (Maryville, Tenn.) and Christopher A. Wiklof (Everett, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer method and system for optimizing distribution of supply items from a plurality of inventory locations to a plurality of demand locations includes, with a server computer, obtaining inventory and demand data and establishing a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problem corresponding to the distribution. Data c...