US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Sept. 8 for "Systems and methods for improving network performance using quantum annealing" (Texas, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,167, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for improving network performance using quantum annealing" was invented by Jerry Gamble (Grapevine, Texas), Richard N. Watson (Boonton, N.J.) and William F. Copeland (Garland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include a processor configured to select a plurality of customers; select a plurality of network assets; and generate a Hamiltonian function representation of optimizing the plurality of network assets with respect to the plurality of customers. The processor may be further configured to determin...