US Patent Issued to NOBLIS on June 23 for "Hardware accelerated minor embedding for quantum annealing" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,230, issued on June 23, was assigned to NOBLIS INC. (Reston, Va.).

"Hardware accelerated minor embedding for quantum annealing" was invented by Andrew Dudash (Reston, Va.), Gabrielle Olshan-Cantin (Reston, Va.) and Sarad Pant (Reston, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for configuring a quantum annealer to solve a QUBO problem comprises receiving data representing an initial graph representing an embedding of a QUBO problem into a qubit architecture of the quantum annealer and causing one or more GPU thread blocks to create and store a best local current graph and update the best local current graph. Updating the best current...