ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,809, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Quantum process duplication" was invented by Stephen Coady (Waterford, Ireland) and Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Quantum process duplication is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a processor device receives a request to duplicate a first quantum process that is associated with a first one or more qubits. The processor device obtains metadata associated with the first quantum process and its qubits, wherein the metadata includes an identifier of the first quantum process and an identifier of each of the first one or more qubits. ...