US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 17 for "Quantum circuit for transformation of mixed state vectors" (American, South African Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,459, issued on March 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Quantum circuit for transformation of mixed state vectors" was invented by Ismail Yunus Akhalwaya (Emmarentia, South Africa), Shashanka Ubaru (Ossining, N.Y.), Kenneth Lee Clarkson (Madison, N.J.), Mark S. Squillante (Greenwich, Conn.), Vasileios Kalantzis (White Plains, N.Y.) and Lior Horesh (North Salem, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for operating quantum systems are described. A controller of a quantum system can generate a command signal. The quantum system can include quantum hardware having a plurality of q...