US Patent Issued to IONQ, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND on Dec. 2 for "Accelerated pattern matching method on a quantum computing system" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,276, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to IONQ INC. (College Park, Md.) and UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND (College Park, Md.).

"Accelerated pattern matching method on a quantum computing system" was invented by Pradeep Niroula (College Park, Md.) and Yunseong Nam (North Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining a pattern in a sequence of bits using a quantum computing system includes setting a first register of a quantum processor in a superposition of a plurality of string index states, encoding a bit string in a second register of the quantum processor, encoding a bit pattern in a third register of the quantum proce...