ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,175, issued on May 12, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Waltham, Mass.) and RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Spectral clustering of graphs on fault tolerant and noisy quantum devices" was invented by Tuhin Sahai (San Francisco) and Hari Kiran Krovi (Lexington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for node cluster assignment in a graph includes initializing a plurality of wavefunctions, each one of the plurality of wavefunctions corresponding to nodes of the graph, constructing a plurality of quantum circuits, each corresponding to a graph Laplacian of the graph, evolving the plurality of wavefunctions at the plural...