US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Nov. 11 for "Uncertainty aware parameter provision for a variational quantum algorithm" (British, American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,977, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Uncertainty aware parameter provision for a variational quantum algorithm" was invented by Edward Oliver Pyzer-Knapp (Runcorn, Great Britain), Mario Motta (San Jose, Calif.) and Michael Johnston (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer-implemented methods and/or computer program products that can facilitate providing a defined parameter, determining whether to employ the defined parameter for a variational quantum algorithm, and running the variational quantum algorithm on a quantum system, are provided. According to an embo...