ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,021, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Backend quantum and classical runtimes via cloud" was invented by Michael Behrendt (Sindelfingen-Maichingen, Germany), Ismael Faro Sertage (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Lev Samuel Bishop (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.), Jay Michael Gambetta (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Renier Morales (Pflugerville, Texas), Ali Javadiabhari (Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.), Seetharami R. Seelam (Chappaqua, N.Y.) and Blake Robert Johnson (Ossining, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques that facilitate backend quantum runtimes are provided. In various embodiments, a system ca...