US Patent Issued to Rigetti on May 12 for "Quantum virtual machine for simulation of a quantum processing system" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,712, issued on May 12, was assigned to Rigetti & Co LLC (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Quantum virtual machine for simulation of a quantum processing system" was invented by Robert Stanley Smith (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Quantum operations can be simulated on a classical processing system using a quantum virtual machine (QVM). The QVM receives a quantum virtual state including a virtual wavefunction of n qubits. The virtual wavefunction is represented by probability amplitudes stored in a memory location of the classical processing system. The QVM simulates a received quantum operation by determining a set of virtual pa...