ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,330, issued on May 20, was assigned to ORIGIN QUANTUM COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY (HEFEI) Co. LTD (Hefei, China).

"Method, apparatus, terminal and storage medium for quantum topology graph optimization" was invented by Weicheng Kong (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a quantum topology graph optimization method, apparatus, terminal and storage medium, comprising: obtaining a first quantum topology graph of a target quantum algorithm, determining an intermediate node in the first quantum topology graph, and removing connecting lines between other graph nodes other than the intermediate node so as to obtain a second qu...