ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,343, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).

"Quantum process parallelization" was invented by Nam H. Nguyen (Anaheim, Calif.), Richard J. Thompson (Huntsville, Ala.) and Marna M. Kagele (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, computer system, and computer program product for parallelizing quantum processes for processing a problem. A computer system identifies subproblems in the problem based on a structure of the problem. The computer system identifies quantum circuits in a set of quantum computers to process the subproblems. The computer system executes jobs on the quantum circuits to solv...