US Patent Issued to NTT on Nov. 3 for "Computing device for Ising model" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,601, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Computing device for Ising model" was invented by Yasuhiro Yamada (Musashino, Japan), Hiroki Takesue (Musashino, Japan), Takahiro Inagaki (Musashino, Japan), Toshimori Honjo (Musashino, Japan), Kensuke Inaba (Musashino, Japan), Takuya Ikuta (Musashino, Japan) and Yuya Yonezu (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device of the present invention is a computing device for an Ising model, including a means for generating a spin state for which a distribution indicating a probability of existence of the spin state for each energy of the spin state is available...