ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,905, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Synthesis of quantum circuits from native gates" was invented by Eric Peterson (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Lev Samuel Bishop (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.) and Ali Javadiabhari (Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a classical computer to synthesize a quantum circuit for use on a quantum computational device includes receiving information for a target operation to be implemented on said quantum computational device, and receiving information regarding native qubit gates that are available on said quantum computational device t...