ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,987, issued on March 3, was assigned to Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Quantum computing based deep learning for detection, diagnosis and other applications" was invented by Fengqi You (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Akshay Sukumar Ajagekar (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in an illustrative embodiment comprises configuring a machine learning system with a multi-layer network architecture comprising at least one neural network and one or more additional network layers, training the neural network at least in part utilizing quantum sampling performed by a quantum computing device, obtaining data characterizing a monitored...