US Patent Issued to IONQ on April 29 for "Quantum approximate chaos optimization for use in a hybrid computing system" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,134, issued on April 29, was assigned to IONQ INC. (College Park, Md.).

"Quantum approximate chaos optimization for use in a hybrid computing system" was invented by Omar Shehab (Hyattsville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein are generally related to a method and a system for performing a computation using a hybrid quantum-classical computing system, and, more specifically, to providing an approximate solution to a combinatorial optimization problem using a hybrid quantum-classical computing system that includes a group of trapped ions. A hybrid quantum-classical computing system that is able to provide a...