US Patent Issued to Rigetti on Aug. 4 for "Computing platform with heterogenous quantum processors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,913, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Rigetti & Co LLC (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Computing platform with heterogenous quantum processors" was invented by Chad Tyler Rigetti (Walnut Creek, Calif.), William J. Zeng (Berkeley, Calif.), Blake Robert Johnson (El Cerrito, Calif.) and Nikolas Anton Tezak (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid quantum-classical platform comprises: a first quantum processor unit (QPU); a second QPU; and a shared classical memory, the shared classical memory being connected to both the first QPU and the second QPU, wherein the shared classical memory is configured to share data between the first Q...