ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,313, issued on July 28, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China) and Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Moscow).

"Quantum circuit simulation" was invented by Roman Sergeevich Schutski (Moscow), Ivan Valerevich Oseledets (Moscow), Yuriy Alexandrovich Zotov (Moscow) and Dmitry Sergeevich Kolmakov (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for simulating a quantum circuit are provided. In particular, an indication of a subset of input and output qubits of the quantum circuit is received. The indicated subset corresponds to an amplitude tensor of the quantum circuit that is to be deter...