ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,904, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.) and THE BOEING COMPANY (Chicago).

"Circuit reduction for exponentials of Pauli operators" was invented by Tanvi Pradeep Gujarati (San Jose, Calif.), Mario Motta (San Jose, Calif.), Julia Elizabeth Rice (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Nam Hoang Nguyen (Anaheim, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer-implemented methods, and/or computer program products to facilitate reduction of a quantum circuit are provided. A computer-implemented method can comprise performing, by a system operatively coupled to at least one processor, decompositio...