US Patent Issued to IONQ on Sept. 23 for "Accelerated molecular dynamics simulation method on a quantum-classical hybrid computing system" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,302, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to IONQ INC. (College Park, Md.).

"Accelerated molecular dynamics simulation method on a quantum-classical hybrid computing system" was invented by Pradeep Niroula (College Park, Md.), Wengang Zhang (Gaithersburg, Md.) and Yunseong Nam (North Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing computation using a hybrid quantum-classical computing system comprising a classical computer and a quantum processor includes computing, by use of a classical computer, short-range inter-particle interaction energies and self-energies of a group of interacting particles, transforming the q...