US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 22 for "Using quantum networks to distribute configurations in a distributed system" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,643, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Using quantum networks to distribute configurations in a distributed system" was invented by Utpal Mangla (Toronto), Paridhi Verma (Mount Kisco, N.Y.), Gerald Coon (Durham, N.C.), Satishkumar Sadagopan (Leawood, Kan.), Mark B. Ritter (Sherman, Conn.), Mudhakar Srivatsa (White Plains, N.Y.), Mathews Thomas (Flower Mound, Texas) and Dinesh C. Verma (New Castle, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one approach, includes receiving at least one set of qubits at a first client component, and using the...