US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Feb. 3 for "Multitasking scheme for quantum computers" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,703, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Multitasking scheme for quantum computers" was invented by Frank Haverkamp (Tuebingen, Germany), Juergen Saalmueller (Holzgerlingen, Germany), Markus Buehler (Schoenbuch, Germany), Thilo Maurer (Stuttgart, Germany), Tristan Muller (Tubingen, Germany) and Jeffrey Joseph Ruedinger (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum computing system that supports efficient multitasking receives messages from a classical computing system to a pool of qubits. Each received message is associated with a partition identifier. The system config...