US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 12 for "Quantum computing based kernel alignment for a support vector machine task" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,178, issued on May 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Quantum computing based kernel alignment for a support vector machine task" was invented by Gian Gentinetta (Chavannes-pres-Renens, Switzerland), David Sutter (Zurich) and Stefan Woerner (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are techniques for optimizing a quantum kernel for a support vector machine task. The techniques include receiving, by digital processor, a set of training data, each member of the set representing a data vector (x) and a label (y) identifying the respective member to be part of either a first class or a second...