ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,190, issued on June 9, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Stabilizer instrument equality determination" was invented by Vadym Kliuchnikov (Redmond, Wash.), Michael Edward Beverland (Seattle) and Adam Edward Paetznick (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system including a processor configured to receive a first stabilizer instrument specification of a first stabilizer instrument. The first stabilizer instrument specification includes a first input Clifford unitary, a first output Clifford unitary, and first stabilizer instrument bit matrices. The processor is further configured...