US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on May 12 for "Hadamard-free clifford circuits over linear nearest neighbor architecture" (Virginia, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,171, issued on May 12, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Hadamard-free clifford circuits over linear nearest neighbor architecture" was invented by Dmitri Maslov (Great Falls, Va.) and Muye Yang (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method, system, and computer program product for reducing and performing quantum circuits. The Embodiment may include receiving, by a classical computer, a quantum circuit comprising a CZ layer and a CNOT layer. The Embodiment may include creating, by a classical computer, a modified quantum circuit based...