US Patent Issued to IonQ on Feb. 17 for "System and method for quantum computing to generate joint probability distributions" (Washington, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,013, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.).

"System and method for quantum computing to generate joint probability distributions" was invented by Sonika Johri (Portland, Ore.) and David Bacon (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to systems and methods for use in the implementation and/or operation of quantum information processing (QIP) systems, and more particularly, to the computation of joint probability distributions with quantum computers. Improvements in the computation of joint probability distributions are described by designing quantum machine l...