US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Oct. 14 for "Quantum error mitigation using hardware-friendly probabilistic error correction" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,868, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Quantum error mitigation using hardware-friendly probabilistic error correction" was invented by Christophe Piveteau (Zurich, Switzerland), David Sutter (Zurich, Switzerland) and Stefan Woerner (Aarau, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques facilitating error mitigation for quantum computing devices. In one example, a system can comprise a process that executes computer executable components stored in memory. The computer executable components comprise: an approximation component; a budget component; and an optimization compo...