ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,716, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Quantum-based distributed ledger" was invented by Ashley Laine Ghosh (McKinney, Texas) and Manu Kurian (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for quantum-computing based distributed ledgers are provided. A distributed ledger program on a computer system with a standard processor and an "N"-qubit processor may receive a request to add data to the distributed ledger from a user. The computer system may then solve one or more algorithmic problems on the "N"-qubit processor. The solution may be received and determined to be correct. Wh...