Inventor · West Vancouver, BC, CA

William G. Macready

45Patents
16h-index
44Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 22, 1999 → May 31, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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

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