US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 28 for "Observational bayesian optimization of quantum-computing operations" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,932, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Observational bayesian optimization of quantum-computing operations" was invented by John King Gamble IV (Redmond, Wash.), Christopher Evan Granade (Redmond, Wash.) and Guenevere Elaine Diah Kartika Prawiro-Atmodjo (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calibrating a quantum-computing operation comprises: (a) providing a trial control-parameter value to the quantum computer; (b) receiving from the quantum computer a result of a characterization experiment enacted according to the trial control-parameter value; (c) compu...