US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 25 for "Generating optimal samples in quantum optimization algorithms" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,134, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generating optimal samples in quantum optimization algorithms" was invented by Stefan Woerner (Zurich, Switzerland) and Daniel Josef Egger (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and computer program product for generating optimal samples in quantum optimization algorithms. A quantum error mitigation technique is used to generate samples of a resulting probability distribution from random quantum circuits. Examples of such quantum error mitigation techniques include probabilistic error cancellation (PEC) and zer...