ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,334, issued on July 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Checkpoint system for accelerators/quantum computing functions-as-a-service" was invented by Benjamin Santaus (Somerville, Mass.), Victor Fong (Melrose, Mass.), Brendan Burns Healy (Whitefish Bay, Wis.) and Romulo Teixeira de Abreu Pinho (Niteroi, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for accelerator functions as a service is disclosed. The system may receive a job that includes a computer (CPU) portion and an accelerator portion. When the accelerator portion is performed, an execution time associated with a time for the accelerator to return result...