US Patent Issued to Google on March 11 for "Efficient and noise resilient measurements for quantum chemistry" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,404, issued on March 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Efficient and noise resilient measurements for quantum chemistry" was invented by Ryan Babbush (Venice, Calif.), William Huggins (Oakland, Calif.) and Jarrod Ryan McClean (Marina del Rey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and apparatus for measuring the energy of a quantum chemical system. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a Hamiltonian describing the chemical system, where the Hamiltonian is expressed in an orthonormal basis; decomposing the Hamiltonian into a sum of terms where each term comprises a respective operator that ...