ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,720, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAS Institute Inc. (Cary, N.C.).
"Hybrid quantum/nonquantum approach to NP-hard combinatorial optimization" was invented by Sertalp Bilal Cay (Raleigh, N.C.), William Lloyd Wisotsky (Dix Hills, N.Y.), Charlotte Kay Crain (Gig Harbor, Wash.), Jinxin Yi (Cary, N.C.), Pelin Cay (Raleigh, N.C.), Justin Joseph Lukas (Charlotte, N.C.), Bryan Christopher Harris (Cary, N.C.) and Alexius Kofi Ameyaw Boakye Jr. (Raleigh, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method include reformulating an optimization program as a Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) model and in a single iterat...