US Patent Issued to Zapata Computing on Aug. 25 for "Classically-boosted variational quantum eigensolver" (Maine, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,129, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Zapata Computing Inc. (Boston).

"Classically-boosted variational quantum eigensolver" was invented by Maxwell D. Radin (Cambridge, Mass.) and Peter D. Johnson (Portland, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are provided for estimating ground state and excited state energies of fermionic Hamiltonians using a classically-boosted Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE). The disclosed technology overcomes the drawbacks of prior VQE methods, which require large numbers of circuit repetitions and excessive runtimes to achieve precision, especially when implemented using Noisy Interm...