US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Feb. 10 for "Stochastic control with a quantum computer" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,918, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Stochastic control with a quantum computer" was invented by Stefan Woerner (Zurich), Panagiotis Barkoutsos (Zurich) and Ivano Tavernelli (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for facilitating utilizing a quantum computing circuit in conjunction with a stochastic control problem are provided. In one embodiment, a system is provided that comprises a quantum computing circuit that prepares a quantum state that represents a stochastic control problem. The system can further comprise a classical computing device that determines param...