US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK, IONQ on Sept. 30 for "Accelerated molecular dynamics simulation method on a computing system" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,484, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Md.) and IONQ INC. (College Park, Md.).

"Accelerated molecular dynamics simulation method on a computing system" was invented by Pradeep Niroula (College Park, Md.), Wengang Zhang (Gaithersburg, Md.) and Yunseong Nam (North Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing a computational process includes transforming, a first register of a quantum processor to a charge encoded state in which charges of interacting particles to be simulated are encoded, transforming a second register of the quantum processor to a position e...