US Patent Issued to Optum Services (Ireland) on Feb. 10 for "Diagnosis and treatment recommendation using quantum computing" (Irish, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,675, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Optum Services (Ireland) Ltd. (Dublin).

"Diagnosis and treatment recommendation using quantum computing" was invented by Lisa E. Walsh (Dublin), Vicente Ruben Del Pino Ruiz (Dublin), Paul J. Godden (London) and Vikas Raj Paidimukkala (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for providing diagnosis and treatment recommendations using quantum computing. For example, a quantum computing device encodes diagnosis-relevant information of a patient as one or more patient diagnosis qubits. The quantum computing device implements a first quantum search algorithm using ...