ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,951, issued on April 7, was assigned to IONQ INC (College Park, Md.), Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corporation. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Multiscale contiguous block pixel entangler for image recognition on hybrid quantum-classical computing system" was invented by Ananth Prakash Kaushik (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sonika Johri (Cupertino, Calif.), Jason John Iaconis (Boulder, Colo.), Soon Cheol Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hanlae Jo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing implementing a quantum convolutional neural network (QCNN) in a hybrid quantum-classical computing system includes ...