ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,184, issued on July 29, was assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Network interface card for quantum computing over classical and quantum communication channels" was invented by Juan Jose Vegas Olmos (Solrod Strand, Denmark), Elad Mentovich (Tel Aviv, Israel), Liran Liss (Atzmon-Segev, Israel) and Yonathan Piasetzky (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for facilitating quantum computing over classical and quantum communication channels. An example system includes a network interface card (NIC) apparatus. The NIC apparatus includes an optical receiver, an embedded processor, a...