ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,376, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Qubit-implemented role-based access control" was invented by Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland) and Stephen Coady (Waterford, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum computing system receives, from a requestor, a first access request that identifies a subject, an action, and a resource. A mapping structure that identifies a plurality of qubits that are in superposition and encoded with a plurality of rules that govern access to the resource is accessed. Based on the mapping structure it is determined that a set of qubits of the plurality of qubits applies...