ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,526, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Image processing using photonic quantum computing" was invented by Prashant Anna Bidkar (Shakarpur, India), Ankit Upadhyaya (Gurugram, India), Prashant Khare (Mumbai, India) and Mani Arora (Gurgaon, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for image processing using photonic quantum computing. A method includes receiving image data represented by classical binary bits. The image data is converted to a photon beam including converted image data represented by photonic quantum bits. The photon beam is split into red-, green-, and blue-chan...