ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,976, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Probabilistic inference in machine learning using a quantum oracle" was invented by Nan Ding (Los Angeles), Masoud Mohseni (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Hartmut Neven (Malibu, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using a quantum oracle to make inference in complex machine learning models that is capable of solving artificial intelligent problems. Input to the quantum oracle is derived from the training data and the model parameters, which maps at least part of ...