US Patent Issued to Zapata Computing on Nov. 3 for "Quantum computer with improved quantum optimization by exploiting marginal data" (Maine, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,931, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Zapata Computing Inc. (Boston).

"Quantum computer with improved quantum optimization by exploiting marginal data" was invented by Peter Douglas Johnson (Portland, Maine), Maxwell D. Radin (Cambridge, Mass.), Jhonathan Romero (Somerville, Mass.), Yudong Cao (Cambridge, Mass.) and Amara Katabarwa (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum optimization system and method for improving performance of variational quantum algorithms using classical post-processing of a measured quantum state. A classical computer estimates, for a quantum state, an expectation value of a Hamiltonian based...