ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,864, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generating hybrid quantum-classical neural network architectures" was invented by Aaron K. Baughman (Cary, N.C.), Kavitha Hassan Yogaraj (Bangalore, India), Arjun Kashyap (Bangalore, India), Gururaja Hebbar (Frisco, Texas), Rukhsan Ul Haq (Srinagar, India) and Sudeep Ghosh (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing a hybrid neural network architecture by training a plurality of models using a set of training data, the plurality comprising quantum models and classical models, evaluating each model using a common test data set...