ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,447, issued on July 21, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Intelligent orchestration of quantum programs using smart contracts linked to quantum program non-fungible tokens" was invented by Shailendra Singh (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Arrangements for intelligent orchestration of quantum programs using smart contracts linked to quantum program non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are provided. A plurality of quantum programs to be executed on target quantum hardware may be received from a digital computing device. NFTs representing each of the plurality of quantum programs may be created and linked...