ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,174, issued on May 12, was assigned to MULTIVERSE COMPUTING SL (Donostia, Spain).

"Method of driving a quantum computer to find one or more states of interest of a network" was invented by Samuel Douglas Palmer (Toronto), Pablo Martin (Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain), Samuel Mugel (Toronto) and Roman Oscar Orus (Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is presented a method of driving a quantum computer to find one or more states of interest of a network. In one example, the network comprising a plurality of players. The method determines a set of adjacent graphs by determining, for each graph, whether each of...