ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,163, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Northeastern University (Boston) and University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Low power Ising system" was invented by Cristian Cassella (Boston), Nicolas Casilli (Kendall Park, N.J.), Onurcan Kaya (Boston), Philip Feng (Gainesville, Fla.) and Tahmid Kaisar (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are Ising machines having a resonant input mesh driven by a pump signal, a resonant output mesh coupled to the input mesh through a nonlinear component to form a parametric frequency divider (PFD), and the nonlinear component configured to passively ...