ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,868, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Attention-based neural networks for quantum computing simulations" was invented by Juan Cruz Benito (Salamanca, Spain), Ivan Duran Martinez (Elmsford, N.Y.), Francisco Jose Martin Fernandez (Ridgefield, Conn.) and Ismael Faro Sertage (Chappaqua, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Quantum code-related entities are obtained and one or more of a set of one or more trained neural network models are selected for inferencing based on the quantum code-related entities. The inferencing is performed using the submitted quantum code-related entities...