ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,651, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Systems and methods for distributed quantum computing" was invented by Kyle Scheps (Geneva), Elad Mentovich (Tel Aviv, Israel), Hossein Seifoory (Toronto), Dimitris Syrivelis (Volos, Greece), Paraskevas Bakopoulos (Ilion, Greece) and Ioannis (Giannis) Patronas (Piraeus, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed quantum computing system is provided that performs distributed quantum computing with time synchronization. The distributed quantum computing system includes a computer processing unit configured to instruct one or more quantum pro...