ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,295, issued on March 25, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Callback-based qubit manipulation" was invented by Stephen Coady (Waterford, Ireland) and Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Enabling callback-based qubit manipulation is disclosed herein. In one example, a quantum computing device comprises a system memory and a processor device communicatively coupled to the system memory. The processor device is to receive a callback request from a requestor, wherein the callback request includes an identifier of a quantum service including a source qubit and an identifier of a callback event. Th...