US Patent Issued to Fujitsu on May 26 for "Solving optimization problems on shallow circuits using a quantum computer" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,604, issued on May 26, was assigned to Fujitsu Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Solving optimization problems on shallow circuits using a quantum computer" was invented by Xiaoyuan Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sarvagya Upadhyay (San Jose, Calif.) and Indradeep Ghosh (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect of an embodiment, operations include receiving an input comprising a node-based graph associated with a real-world optimization problem and generating a sparse graph by removing a subset of edges from the node-based graph, The operations further include formulating operators of a quantum circuit on a quantum com...