ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,615, issued on May 26, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Entanglement forging for quantum simulations" was invented by Sergey Bravyi (Ossining, N.Y.), Sarah Elizabeth Sheldon (Tarrytown, N.Y.), Mario Motta (San Jose, Calif.), Antonio Mezzacapo (Tarrytown, N.Y.), Tanvi Pradeep Gujarati (San Jose, Calif.) and Andrew Eddins (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for quantum entanglement forging for quantum simulations are presented. A decomposer component can decompose a weakly entangled variational state into respective local components of the weakly entangled variational state, wherei...