ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,676, issued on May 5, was assigned to ORCA Computing Ltd. (London).

"Binary optimization with boson sampling" was invented by Hugo Wallner (London) and Kamil Bradler (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a boson sampler configured to generate an output bosonic state by performing a parametrized unitary transformation on an input bosonic state. The system may include a controller coupled to the boson sampler. The controller may be configured to: (i) determine a set of one or more parameter values that defines the parametrized unitary transformation performed by the boson sampler, (ii) operate the boson sampler mul...