ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,264, issued on July 14, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Quantum calculating thermalization rate and boltzmann sampling" was invented by Guglielmo Mazzola (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more systems, computer-implemented methods and/or computer program products provided that can facilitate performing Boltzmann probability distribution sampling and determining a thermalization rate using quantum computing operations. A system can comprise a memory that stores computer-executable component, and a processor, operatively coupled to the memory, that executes computer-executable componen...