ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,533, issued on May 13, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Simulation of quantum circuits" was invented by Sergio Boixo Castrillo (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.) and Vadim Smelyanskiy (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and apparatus for simulating quantum circuits including multiple quantum logic gates. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of representing the multiple quantum logic gates as functions of one or more classical Boolean variables that define a undirected graphical model with each classical Boolean variable representing a vertex in the model and each function of r...