Inventor · disambiguated record
William G. Macready
Also filed as: MACREADY WILLIAM · MACREADY WILLIAM G
45 granted patents·13 pending applications·1,202 citations·filing 1999–2023
98Inventor score
Files withD WAVE SYSTEMS INC30DWAVE SYS INC8MACREADY WILLIAM4MACREADY WILLIAM G4SANCTUARY COGNITIVE SYSTEMS CORP3
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58 records- 0197US8560282B2Quantum processor-based systems, methods and apparatus for solving problems as logic circuitsMACREADY WILLIAM G·Filed 2010·Granted Oct 15, 2013·140 cites·11 claims
- 0296US9026574B2Systems and methods for solving computational problemsDWAVE SYS INC·Filed 2012·Granted May 5, 2015·31 cites·8 claims
- 0396US8195596B2Systems, devices, and methods for interconnected processor topologyROSE GEORDIE·Filed 2008·Granted Jun 5, 2012·226 cites·34 claims
- 0495US9727824B2Systems and methods for quantum processing of dataD WAVE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2014·Granted Aug 8, 2017·56 cites·36 claims
- 0595US9405876B2Systems and methods for solving computational problemsD WAVE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2014·Granted Aug 2, 2016·27 cites·12 claims
- 0695US8700689B2Systems and methods for solving computational problemsMACREADY WILLIAM·Filed 2010·Granted Apr 15, 2014·52 cites·34 claims
- 0795US7984012B2Graph embedding techniquesDWAVE SYS INC·Filed 2007·Granted Jul 19, 2011·75 cites·19 claims
- 0894US8032474B2Processing relational database problems using analog processorsDWAVE SYS INC·Filed 2010·Granted Oct 4, 2011·48 cites·15 claims
- 0993US11704586B2Systems and methods for analog processing of problem graphs having arbitrary size and/or connectivityD WAVE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2022·Granted Jul 18, 2023·3 cites·12 claims
- 1093US10817796B2Systems and methods for machine learningD WAVE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2017·Granted Oct 27, 2020·14 cites·12 claims
- 1193US10599988B2Systems and methods for analog processing of problem graphs having arbitrary size and/or connectivityD WAVE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2017·Granted Mar 24, 2020·15 cites·38 claims
- 1293US10275422B2Systems and methods for finding quantum binary optimization problemsD WAVE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2015·Granted Apr 30, 2019·18 cites·19 claims
- 1393US8244662B2Graph embedding techniquesCOURY MICHAEL·Filed 2011·Granted Aug 14, 2012·65 cites·14 claims
- 1492US11501195B2Systems and methods for quantum processing of data using a sparse coded dictionary learned from unlabeled data and supervised learning using encoded labeled data elementsD WAVE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2017·Granted Nov 15, 2022·13 cites·17 claims
- 1592US8195726B2Systems, devices, and methods for solving computational problemsMACREADY WILLIAM·Filed 2007·Granted Jun 5, 2012·39 cites·41 claims
- 1692US7870087B2Processing relational database problems using analog processorsDWAVE SYS INC·Filed 2007·Granted Jan 11, 2011·51 cites·69 claims
- 1791US9588940B2Sampling from a set of spins with clampingD WAVE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2015·Granted Mar 7, 2017·15 cites·26 claims
- 1890US12039407B2Systems and methods for analog processing of problem graphs having arbitrary size and/or connectivityD WAVE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2023·Granted Jul 16, 2024·1 cites·40 claims
- 1990US10318881B2Systems and methods for quantum processing of dataD WAVE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2014·Granted Jun 11, 2019·33 cites·35 claims
- 2090US7877333B2Method and system for solving integer programming and discrete optimization problems using analog processorsDWAVE SYS INC·Filed 2007·Granted Jan 25, 2011·42 cites·19 claims
- 2189US11042811B2Discrete variational auto-encoder systems and methods for machine learning using adiabatic quantum computersD WAVE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2017·Granted Jun 22, 2021·9 cites·25 claims
- 2288US11586915B2Systems and methods for collaborative filtering with variational autoencodersD WAVE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2018·Granted Feb 21, 2023·7 cites·20 claims
- 2388US9665539B1Systems and methods for solving computational problemsD WAVE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2017·Granted May 30, 2017·4 cites·8 claims
- 2488US9218567B2Quantum processor based systems and methods that minimize an objective functionMACREADY WILLIAM G·Filed 2012·Granted Dec 22, 2015·25 cites·127 claims
- 2587US12229632B2Systems and methods to generate samples for machine learning using quantum computingD WAVE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2020·Granted Feb 18, 2025·2 cites·16 claims
- 2687US7844656B2Systems, methods and apparatus for factoring numbersDWAVE SYS INC·Filed 2006·Granted Nov 30, 2010·21 cites·37 claims
- 2786US10467543B2Quantum processor based systems and methods that minimize an objective functionD WAVE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2015·Granted Nov 5, 2019·7 cites·19 claims
- 2885US9594726B2Systems and methods for solving computational problemsD WAVE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2016·Granted Mar 14, 2017·3 cites·17 claims
- 2985US8386554B2Systems, methods and apparatus for factoring numbersDWAVE SYS INC·Filed 2010·Granted Feb 26, 2013·14 cites·7 claims
- 3084US11481669B2Systems, methods and apparatus for sampling from a sampling serverD WAVE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2017·Granted Oct 25, 2022·8 cites·18 claims
- 3184US8977576B2Methods for solving computational problems using a quantum processorMACREADY WILLIAM G·Filed 2011·Granted Mar 10, 2015·16 cites·20 claims
- 3283US11386346B2Systems and methods for quantum bayesian networksD WAVE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2019·Granted Jul 12, 2022·5 cites·21 claims
- 3381US11461644B2Systems and methods for semantic segmentationD WAVE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2019·Granted Oct 4, 2022·4 cites·20 claims
- 3479US11348026B2Systems and methods for analog processing of problem graphs having arbitrary size and/or connectivityD WAVE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2020·Granted May 31, 2022·1 cites·23 claims
- 3579US8874629B2Systems, devices, and methods for solving computational problemsMACREADY WILLIAM·Filed 2012·Granted Oct 28, 2014·5 cites·21 claims
- 3676US9875215B2Systems and methods that formulate problems for solving by a quantum processor using hardware graph decompositionD WAVE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2013·Granted Jan 23, 2018·8 cites·12 claims
- 3775US12263594B2Systems, robots, and methods for selecting classifiers based on contextSANCTUARY COGNITIVE SYSTEMS CORP·Filed 2022·Granted Apr 1, 2025·0 cites·19 claims
- 3875US12246452B2Systems, robots, and methods for selecting classifiers based on contextSANCTUARY COGNITIVE SYSTEMS CORP·Filed 2022·Granted Mar 11, 2025·0 cites·18 claims
- 3974US12198051B2Systems and methods for collaborative filtering with variational autoencodersD WAVE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2023·Granted Jan 14, 2025·0 cites·21 claims
- 4070US12240121B2Robots and methods for utilizing idle processing resourcesSANCTUARY COGNITIVE SYSTEMS CORP·Filed 2022·Granted Mar 4, 2025·0 cites·14 claims
- 4168US2022092152A1Sampling from a set spins with clampingD WAVE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2021·Application pending·0 cites
- 4267US9396440B2Systems and methods for solving combinatorial problemsDWAVE SYS INC·Filed 2013·Granted Jul 19, 2016·5 cites·19 claims
- 4364US11238131B2Sampling from an analog processorD WAVE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2017·Granted Feb 1, 2022·1 cites·32 claims
- 4463US2004243366A1Method for optimal search on a technology landscapeBIOS GROUP INC·Filed 2004·Application pending·0 cites
- 4563US2021365826A1Discrete variational auto-encoder systems and methods for machine learning using adiabatic quantum computersD WAVE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2021·Application pending·0 cites
- 4660US11410067B2Systems and methods for machine learning using adiabatic quantum computersD WAVE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2016·Granted Aug 9, 2022·1 cites·14 claims
- 4757US2001041997A1Method for optimal search on a technology landscapeFiled 2001·Application pending·0 cites
- 4857US2008052055A1Systems, methods and apparatus for protein folding simulationROSE GEORDIE·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 4951US2002016759A1Method and system for discovery of trades between partiesFiled 2000·Application pending·0 cites
- 5050US7707091B1System and method for the analysis and prediction of economic marketsNUTECH SOLUTIONS INC·Filed 1999·Granted Apr 27, 2010·92 cites·7 claims
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