US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA, KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 17 for "Quantum computer and quantum state simulation method using same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,012, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Quantum computer and quantum state simulation method using same" was invented by Woo-Min Kyoung (Yongin-si, South Korea), Young-Min Rhee (Daejeon, South Korea), You-Sung Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), Gwon-Hak Lee (Boryeong-si, South Korea), Kyung-Min Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), June-Koo Rhee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Su-Min Lim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of simulating a quantum state using a quantum comput...