US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 6 for "Global quantum optimization algorithm for combinatorial optimization problems in NISQ devices" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,184, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Global quantum optimization algorithm for combinatorial optimization problems in NISQ devices" was invented by Mitsuharu Takeori (Kashiwa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and computer program product for employing quantum optimization algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems in noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. An objective function of a combinatorial optimization problem to be minimized is defined. The input to the objective function corresponds to the circuit parameters for the ansatz of the Ga...