US Patent Issued to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Inter-University Research Institute Corporation Research Organization of Information and Systems on Sept. 23 for "Computing device of Ising model" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,608, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo) and Inter-University Research Institute Corporation Research Organization of Information and Systems (Tokyo).

"Computing device of Ising model" was invented by Hiroki Takesue (Musashino, Japan), Takahiro Inagaki (Musashino, Japan), Toshimori Honjo (Musashino, Japan), Kensuke Inaba (Musashino, Japan), Shoko Utsunomiya (Tokyo) and Shuhei Tamate (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A calculation device of the present disclosure is characterized by implementing an item, which expresses a magnetic field, at each site by adding, to the conventional cohe...