ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,153, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Foqus Technologies Inc. (Toronto).

"Method for signal suppression by increasing entropy and quantum algorithm" was invented by Sadegh Raeisi (Toronto) and Michele Mosca (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for signal suppression by increasing entropy in a system includes iteratively applying a set of electromagnetic (EM) pulses to the system, the set of EM pulses effecting swaps between the following pairs of system energy levels: a first system energy level in which the reset system is in a highest energy level and the target system is in a lowest target system energy level,...