William G. Macready
45Patents
16h-index
44Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 22, 1999 → May 31, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US8195596B2 | Systems, devices, and methods for interconnected processor topology | Performing Operations; Transporting | 200 | Active |
| US8560282B2 | Quantum processor-based systems, methods and apparatus for solving problems as logic circuits | Electricity | 124 | Active |
| US7984012B2 | Graph embedding techniques | Physics | 70 | Active |
| US8244662B2 | Graph embedding techniques | Physics | 60 | Active |
| US7707091B1 | System and method for the analysis and prediction of economic markets | Physics | 48 | Expired |
| US9727824B2 | Systems and methods for quantum processing of data | Physics | 47 | Active |
| US8700689B2 | Systems and methods for solving computational problems | Physics | 47 | Active |
| US8032474B2 | Processing relational database problems using analog processors | Physics | 41 | Active |
| US7870087B2 | Processing relational database problems using analog processors | Physics | 41 | Active |
| US8195726B2 | Systems, devices, and methods for solving computational problems | Physics | 34 | Active |
| US7877333B2 | Method and system for solving integer programming and discrete optimization problems using analog processors | Physics | 30 | Active |
| US9026574B2 | Systems and methods for solving computational problems | Physics | 28 | Active |
| US9405876B2 | Systems and methods for solving computational problems | Physics | 25 | Active |
| US10318881B2 | Systems and methods for quantum processing of data | Physics | 24 | Active |
| US9218567B2 | Quantum processor based systems and methods that minimize an objective function | Physics | 22 | Active |
| US7844656B2 | Systems, methods and apparatus for factoring numbers | Electricity | 17 | Active |
| US9588940B2 | Sampling from a set of spins with clamping | Physics | 14 | Active |
| US10817796B2 | Systems and methods for machine learning | Physics | 13 | Active |
| US10275422B2 | Systems and methods for finding quantum binary optimization problems | Physics | 13 | Active |
| US10599988B2 | Systems and methods for analog processing of problem graphs having arbitrary size and/or connectivity | Physics | 13 | Active |
| US8386554B2 | Systems, methods and apparatus for factoring numbers | Electricity | 11 | Active |
| US8977576B2 | Methods for solving computational problems using a quantum processor | Physics | 9 | Active |
| US11042811B2 | Discrete variational auto-encoder systems and methods for machine learning using adiabatic quantum computers | Physics | 7 | Active |
| US9875215B2 | Systems and methods that formulate problems for solving by a quantum processor using hardware graph decomposition | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US11481669B2 | Systems, methods and apparatus for sampling from a sampling server | Electricity | 6 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.