ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,664, issued on March 17, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Quantum entanglement for distributed actions" was invented by Craig Gidney (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing a distributed control action are disclosed. The systems and methods can include obtaining, by a quantum computing system including one or more qubits, a first entangled qubit of a pair of entangled qubits. A second entangled qubit of the pair of entangled qubits can be positioned at a second quantum computing system that is remote from the quantum computing system. The systems and methods can include i...