ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,748, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Multiverse Computing S.L. (Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain).

"Optimizer and optimization based on variational rotational landscape" was invented by Roman Orus (Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain), Pablo Bermejo (Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain) and Borja Aizpurua (Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus or system comprising at least one classical processor and/or at least one quantum processor configured to calculate a first cost of a predetermined cost function associated with both a predetermined optimization problem and a set of variables as parameters, and calculate...