ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,966, issued on June 2, was assigned to Phasecraft Ltd. (London).

"Mitigating errors in algorithms performed using quantum information processors" was invented by Ashley Montanaro (London) and Stasja Stanisic (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises, for each of a plurality of FLO circuits, (i) executing, one or more times using the quantum information processor, that FLO circuit to determine a first value of an observable; and (ii) classically simulating that FLO circuit to determine a second value of the observable. A training set comprises tuples, each tuple comprising parameter(s) for defining a FLO circuit, the co...