US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Sept. 23 for "Simulating quantum circuits on a computer using hierarchical storage" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,605, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Simulating quantum circuits on a computer using hierarchical storage" was invented by Edwin Peter Dawson Pednault (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.), Giacomo Nannicini (New York), John A. Gunnels (Somers, N.Y.) and Lior Horesh (North Salem, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a simulation of an input quantum circuit, comprising a machine-readable specification of a quantum circuit. Aspects include partitioning the input quantum circuit into a group of sub-circuits based on at least two groups of qubits identified for tensor slici...