ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,711, issued on May 27, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Deriving a custom version of a software package from super positioned qubits" was invented by Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland) and Pierre-Yves Chibon (Puteaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum computing system (QCS) receives from a computing device a request for a custom software version of a software package that includes a subset of features from a set of features implemented by a version of the software package, the request identifying the software package and the subset of features. The QCS places each qubit of a plurality of qubits in which th...