Patents by Inventor Dominic MARCHAND

Dominic MARCHAND has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11651837
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for determining a conformation of a molecule on at least one degree of freedom to optimize according to at least one molecular objective function, the method comprising generating using at least one corresponding degree of freedom to optimize a connected rigid bodies representation for the molecule by identifying a plurality of groups of atoms, generating a data structure representative of the connected rigid bodies representation generating at least one neighborhood for each generated neighborhood of the at least one generated neighborhoods, generating a corresponding binary optimization problem using the data structure, providing the generated corresponding binary optimization problem to a high-performance binary optimizer, obtaining a solution from the high-performance binary optimizer; and providing at least one corresponding solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: 1QB INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Moslem Noori, Brad Woods, Dominic Marchand
  • Publication number: 20200143910
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for determining a conformation of a molecule on at least one degree of freedom to optimize according to at least one molecular objective function, the method comprising generating using at least one corresponding degree of freedom to optimize a connected rigid bodies representation for the molecule by identifying a plurality of groups of atoms, generating a data structure representative of the connected rigid bodies representation generating at least one neighborhood for each generated neighborhood of the at least one generated neighborhoods, generating a corresponding binary optimization problem using the data structure, providing the generated corresponding binary optimization problem to a high-performance binary optimizer, obtaining a solution from the high-performance binary optimizer; and providing at least one corresponding solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: 1QB INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Moslem NOORI, Brad Woods, Dominic Marchand
  • Patent number: 9916283
    Abstract: A method for solving a problem involving a hypergraph partitioning is disclosed, the method comprising receiving an indication of a problem involving a hypergraph partitioning; obtaining at least one property associated with a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization solver operatively coupled with the digital computer; formulating a partitioning problem of the hypergraph as an unconstrained binary optimization problem; reducing the unconstrained binary optimization problem into a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problem; mapping the quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problem into the quadratic unconstrained binary optimization solver; obtaining from the quadratic unconstrained binary optimization solver at least one solution to the quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problem; applying a refinement procedure and translating the refined at least one solution to provide an indication of the partitioning and providing a solution to the problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: 1QG INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Arman Zaribafiyan, Dominic Marchand
  • Publication number: 20170177544
    Abstract: A method for solving a problem involving a hypergraph partitioning is disclosed, the method comprising receiving an indication of a problem involving a hypergraph partitioning; obtaining at least one property associated with a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization solver operatively coupled with the digital computer; formulating a partitioning problem of the hypergraph as an unconstrained binary optimization problem; reducing the unconstrained binary optimization problem into a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problem; mapping the quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problem into the quadratic unconstrained binary optimization solver; obtaining from the quadratic unconstrained binary optimization solver at least one solution to the quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problem; applying a refinement procedure and translating the refined at least one solution to provide an indication of the partitioning and providing a solution to the problem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Arman ZARIBAFIYAN, Dominic MARCHAND
  • Publication number: 20170124027
    Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for generating an embedding pattern used for solving a quadratic binary optimization problem using a quadratic solver characterized by an architecture. The method comprises obtaining an indication of a quadratic binary optimization problem; decomposing the quadratic binary optimization problem into a product of graphs representative of the input problem; selecting a graph of the product of graphs representative of the quadratic binary optimization problem; determining a nexus for embedding the selected graph of the product of graphs representative of the input problem in the architecture of the quadratic solver; determining a corresponding pattern for the nexus and buses to generate an embedding pattern and providing an indication of the embedding pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Arman ZARIBAFIYAN, Dominic MARCHAND, Seyed Saeed CHANGIZ REZAEI