ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,068, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Quantum machine perception" was invented by Alan Ho (Mountain View, Calif.), Guillaume Verdon (Mountain View, Calif.) and Masoud Mohseni (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology relates to enhancing performance of quantum sensor operation in a noisy environment. Quantum neural networks are used to pre- and post-process analog signals to which qubits of a quantum sensor are exposed. Intra-processing using additional quantum neural networks may also be employed. This approach filters out noise from both the input analog signal and t...