ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,341, issued on March 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Quantum assisted optimization" was invented by Vasil S. Denchev (West Lafayette, Ind.), Masoud Mohseni (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Hartmut Neven (Malibu, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for quantum assisted optimization. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a set of initial input states, applying one or more of (i) dynamical thermal fluctuations and (ii) cluster update algorithms to the set of input states and subsequent input states when the states evolve within the classical information processors, applying dynamical qua...