US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 2 for "Quantum source coding with a quantum sorting network" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,430, issued on June 2, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Quantum source coding with a quantum sorting network" was invented by Connor Hann (New Haven, Conn.), Liang Jiang (Chicago), Isaac Chuang (Cambridge, Mass.) and Senrui Chen (Guizhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum source coding method includes: initializing a quantum register having a plurality of nodes: loading a unary-coded message into the quantum register; loading an address state into an address register of each message node of the quantum register; sorting the message nodes bas...