US Patent Issued to MULTIVERSE COMPUTING on April 15 for "Methods and apparatuses for operating a gaussian boson sampling quantum device as an annealer" (Canadian, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,478, issued on April 15, was assigned to MULTIVERSE COMPUTING S.L. (Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain).

"Methods and apparatuses for operating a gaussian boson sampling quantum device as an annealer" was invented by Orus Roman (Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain) and Mugel Samuel (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method comprising: obtaining an equation with a cost function for minimization related to an optimization problem thereby yielding a cost function equation, the cost function including two or more binary variables, converting the cost function equation into a Boolean formula in Conjunctive Normal; obtainin...