ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,778, issued on March 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Low-cost linear orders for quantum-program simulation" was invented by Damian Silvio Steiger (Zurich), Thomas Haener (Zug, Switzerland), Martin Henri Roetteler (Woodinville, Wash.) and Helmut Gottfried Katzgraber (Kirkland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method to digitally simulate an evolving quantum state of a qubit register of a quantum computer, the quantum state is represented as a state vector of complex-valued amplitudes, where each amplitude is associated with an individual qubit of the qubit register. A directed acyclic ...