ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,645, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for generating Grover oracle quantum circuit, and Grover oracle quantum circuit using the same" was invented by You-Seok Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for generating a Grover oracle quantum circuit, and the Grover oracle quantum circuit using the same. The method may include analyzing data qubits and sub-qubits used for a design of an analysis target cipher quantum circuit configured to implement an analysis target cipher ba...