ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,644, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Simulating quantum computing circuits using sparse state partitioning" was invented by Matthew Jones (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Taylor Lee Patti (Orange, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, systems and methods for simulating quantum circuits using sparse state partitioning are provided. The quantum state of a quantum circuit may be partitioned into one or more state vector partition candidates that may form sparse state partitions that avoid memory operations for one or more state elements of the quantum circuit's state vector. Gate g...