ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,310, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Quantum data compression" was invented by Mohamed Zouhaier Ramadhane (Azcapotzalco, Mexico) and Catalina Albornoz (Bogota, Colombia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of data compression leveraging quantum computing and classical computing includes extracting metadata from a binary data to be compressed. The binary data is compressed by iteratively performing a compression operation including selecting a hashing function and hashing the binary data. The quantum computer device performs an inverting of the hashing...