US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 5 for "Oblivious carry runway registers for performing piecewise additions" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,353, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Oblivious carry runway registers for performing piecewise additions" was invented by Craig Gidney (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for piecewise addition into an accumulation register using one or more carry runway registers, where the accumulation register includes a first plurality of qubits with each qubit representing a respective bit of a first binary number and where each carry runway register includes multiple qubits representing a respective binary number. In one aspect, a method includes inserting the one or more ca...