US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College on Dec. 23 for "Quantum convolutional neural networks" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,331, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Quantum convolutional neural networks" was invented by Iris Cong (Cambridge, Mass.), Soonwon Choi (El Cerrito, Calif.) and Mikhail D. Lukin (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for quantum convolutional neural networks are described. Systems and methods can apply convolving and pooling layers to input qudits. The qudits can be measured to identify information about the input qudits. Systems and methods can also apply quantum convolutional neural network encoding and decoding techniques for quantum erro...