ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,070, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Gradient-based quantum assisted Hamiltonian learning" was invented by Thomas Eugene O'Brien (Munich), Vadim Smelyanskiy (Mountain View, Calif.), Lev Ioffe (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Yuan Su (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Ryan Babbush (Venice, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for gradient-based quantum assisted Hamiltonian learning. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining, by a classical processor, multiple experimental data points, wherein each experimental data point is generated according to a Hamiltonian comprising parame...