US Patent Issued to Intel on July 1 for "Hybrid compilation apparatus and method for quantum-classical code sequences" (Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,678, issued on July 1, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hybrid compilation apparatus and method for quantum-classical code sequences" was invented by Xiang Zou (Portland, Ore.), Justin Hogaboam (Aloha, Ore.), Pradnya Laxman Khalate (Cornelius, Ore.), Xin-Chuan Wu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Anne Matsuura (Portland, Ore.) and Shavindra Premaratne (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method for compiling and executing hybrid classical-quantum programs. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: reading source code specifying both non-quantum operations to be performed by a host processor and...