ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,599, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Network depth-minimizing quantum compiler" was invented by Thomas Fischbacher (Thalwil, Switzerland) and Luca Versari (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations disclosed describe techniques used for compiling a quantum algorithm for execution on a plurality of quantum circuits, including accessing, by a processing device, the quantum algorithm, identifying a matrix associated with the quantum algorithm, determining a representation of the identified matrix as a matrix decomposition that includes a plurality of transformation matrices, wherein on...