ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,510, issued on April 15, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Systems and method for solving Quadratic Unconstrained D-ary Optimization (QUDO) problems by quantum computing" was invented by Sayantan Pramanik (Bangalore, India) and Mariswamy Girish Chandra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Quantum Information Processing (QIP) with the availability of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) device(s) are available to work on quantum algorithms. Different problems, which are hard to solve by classical computation, but can be sped up (significantly in some cases) are also being populated. However...