ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,115, issued on May 26, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Manual qubit mapping during transpilation" was invented by Brendan Burns Healy (Haddonfield, N.J.), Romulo Teixeira de Abreu Pinho (Niteroi, Brazil) and Victor Fong (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes obtaining error information for physical qubits that are candidates for mapping by respective virtual qubits of a quantum circuit, sampling the physical qubits based on their respective error information, mapping the virtual qubits to the physical qubits obtained by the sampling, and performing a shot of the quantum circui...