ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,921, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.).
"Change detection in images using quantum computers" was invented by Ananth Prakash Kaushik (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to systems and methods for detecting change in images using a quantum information processing (QIP) system. The method includes implementing a quantum circuit in the QIP system, the quantum circuit comprising at least an ancilla qubit denoted as |aless than and qubits denoted as image qubit conditions on a |0less than state and a |1less than state of the ancilla qubit |ales...