US Patent Issued to Red Hat on March 18 for "Version control of files encoding information via qubits" (Irish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,982, issued on March 18, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Version control of files encoding information via qubits" was invented by Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland) and Pierre-Yves Chibon (Paris la Defense, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Quantum version control (QVC) services are disclosed that manage, track, and archives updates to the contents of a quantum file (QF). The QVC service tracks versions of a QF as updates are made to the QF, assigns a unique identifier to each version of the QF, and generates a version history for the QF. The QVC service enables a recovery of each version of the QF within the ver...