US Patent Issued to Google on Nov. 3 for "Constructing and programming quantum hardware for robust quantum annealing processes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,933, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Constructing and programming quantum hardware for robust quantum annealing processes" was invented by Masoud Mohseni (Calabasas, Calif.) and Hartmut Neven (Malibu, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among other things, an apparatus comprises quantum units; and couplers among the quantum units. Each coupler is configured to couple a pair of quantum units according to a quantum Hamiltonian characterizing the quantum units and the couplers. The quantum Hamiltonian includes quantum annealer Hamiltonian and a quantum governor Hamiltonian. The quantum annealer Ha...