ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,509, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Access protection for shared qubits" was invented by Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland) and Stephen Coady (Waterford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Access protection for shared qubits is disclosed herein. In one example, a processor device first determines that a first quantum process associated with one or more qubits is scheduled for execution (e.g., based on metadata obtained from the quantum process manager.) The processor device next identifies a second quantum process that is active and that is also associated with the one or more qubits. The proces...