US Patent Issued to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia on May 20 for "Feedback-based quantum optimization" (New Mexico, New Jersey, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,900, issued on May 20, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Feedback-based quantum optimization" was invented by Alicia Bette Magann (Titusville, N.J.), Mohan Sarovar (Albany, Calif.), Kenneth Michael Rudinger (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Matthew Grace (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for identifying approximate solutions to discrete optimization problems includes a quantum computing device. The quantum computing device iteratively configures a layered quantum circuit to evaluate a Hamiltonian representation of a cost function over a set of parameter values...