US Patent Issued to Red Hat on May 6 for "Qubit allocation service" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,259, issued on May 6, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Qubit allocation service" was invented by Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland) and Stephen Coady (Waterford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Qubit allocation service is disclosed. A qubit allocation service determines that a first quantum service requires a qubit for execution. A qubit registry that maintains information about a plurality of qubits on a quantum computing system is accessed to identify a first qubit of the plurality of qubits that is available for allocation. Information indicating that the first qubit is allocated to the first quantum service i...