US Patent Issued to IonQ, University of Maryland, College Park on June 30 for "Methods and apparatuses for resource-optimized fermionic local simulation on quantum computer for quantum chemistry" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,304, issued on June 30, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.) and University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Md.).

"Methods and apparatuses for resource-optimized fermionic local simulation on quantum computer for quantum chemistry" was invented by Qingfeng Wang (College Park, Md.), Ming Li (College Park, Md.) and Yunseong Nam (College Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure describe a method including predicting a first set of ansatz terms and a first plurality of amplitudes associated with the first set of ansatz terms; minimizing energy of the system based on the first set of ans...