ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,232, issued on May 19, was assigned to Horizon Quantum Computing PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Systems and methods for unified computing on digital and quantum computers" was invented by Joseph Francis Fitzsimons (Singapore) and Si-Hui Tan (Gentofte, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer systems and methods are provided for compiling a computer program to run on a quantum processor comprising a plurality of qubits, qudits or quantum continuous variables. A compiler obtains the program in a unified language, that is effectively a classical language, as opposed to a quantum language, and performs code refactoring on all or a portion...