ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,952, issued on April 7, was assigned to Red Hat LLC (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Quantum resource access control through consensus" was invented by Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland) and Adam Piasecki (Dublin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum computing system determines that a quantum process seeks access to a quantum resource implemented by the quantum computing system. It is determined that a particular contract of a plurality of contracts governs access to the quantum resource, the contract identifying a condition of the quantum computing system that is to be met prior to granting access to the quantum resource. Information is sent to...