ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,180, issued on July 1, was assigned to HRL LABORATORIES LLC (Malibu, Calif.).

"System and method for pattern recognition and graph extraction for data collected from gate-defined semiconductor quantum dots" was invented by Joseph Comer (Portland, Ore.), Reed Andrews (Port Hueneme, Calif.), Ian Jenkins (Westlake Village, Calif.), Parker Williams (Calabasas, Calif.), Heiko Hoffmann (Simi Valley, Calif.) and Wyatt Mcallister (Malibu, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a system for pattern recognition and graph extraction. The system operates by obtaining data from a quantum dot device having gate defined semiconductor qua...