ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,216, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Combined classical/quantum predictor evaluation" was invented by Aaron K. Baughman (Cary, N.C.), Souvik Mazumder (Kolkata, India), Mohit Trivedi (Dunwoody, Ga.), Gururaja Hebbar (Frisco, Texas), Daniel Joseph Fry (Buchare, Romania), Kavitha Hassan Yogaraj (Bangalore, India) and Herman Colquhoun (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Using a classical data model executing on a classical processor, a set of classical features is scored. A classical feature comprises a first attribute of a resource, and a score of the classical feature ...