US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS, INTER-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CORPORATION NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF NATURAL SCIENCES on March 17 for "Quantum simulator and quantum simulation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,093, issued on March 17, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan) and INTER-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CORPORATION NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF NATURAL SCIENCES (Mitaka, Japan).

"Quantum simulator and quantum simulation method" was invented by Hiroto Sakai (Hamamatsu, Japan), Kenji Ohmori (Okazaki, Japan), Taro Ando (Hamamatsu, Japan), Sylvain De Leseleuc (Okazaki, Japan), Takafumi Tomita (Okazaki, Japan), Seiji Sugawa (Okazaki, Japan), Yoshiyuki Ohtake (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Haruyoshi Toyoda (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum simulator includes a chamber, a light beam generation apparatus, an...