US Patent Issued to Quantinuum on Nov. 18 for "Quantum computer system and method for combinatorial optimization" (British, Lithuanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,401, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Quantinuum Ltd (London).

"Quantum computer system and method for combinatorial optimization" was invented by David Amaro (London), Carlo Modica (London), Marcello Benedetti (Vilnius, Lithuania), Mattia Fiorentini (London), Michael Lubasch (London) and Matthias Rosenkranz (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system including one or more classical binary computers coupled to one or more quantum computers. The computing system is configured to process the one or more computing tasks including at least one combinatorial optimization task using a Filtering Variational Quantum Eigensolv...