ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,271, issued on July 14, was assigned to Korea University Research and Business Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).
"Method for searching minimum" was invented by Jun Heo (Seoul, South Korea) and Yujin Kang (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a minimum searching method for searching a minimum in N (N is a natural number) data by a computing device including at least one processor. The method for searching the minimum may include: determining a threshold; initializing Qubits to include indexes representing addresses in which the N data are recorded, respectively, and the threshold in a superposition state; retu...