2 ms·

AMD patent reveals revolutionary teleportation-based quantum computer

• dekhn 5y ago
  I'm fairly certain they don't have a physical instantiation of the teleportation unit at this time; IE, this is just an Idea They Had well in advance of any technology.
  • galaxyLogic 5y ago
    > this is just an Idea They Had well in advance of any technology. But wouldn't that be against the rules of patenting? I thought you can only patent something that "can be used". The statue says: "... a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same." 35 U.S. Code § 112 But you can not "use" something that does not work, at least not for the purpose it was intended for. Further if nobody knows how to create a teleportation unit that would work with this described invention then it is not true that "any person skilled in the art" can make it. Maybe it is true that AMD does not know how to make those teleportation units. But if a person(s) skilled in the art can make them then it doesn't really matter if AMD has them or not. AMD can simply hire such a person or persons to make them. Of course it is always possible to make a patent-application which has no chance of being granted. But why would a company do such a thing since it then reveals their idea to the competition? I'm not a lawyer but I think they must have not just some idea, but actually an "implementable" idea.
    • dekhn 5y ago
      No. You do not have to build an actual thing, nor does anybody else have to, for a patent to be valid.
      • galaxyLogic 5y ago
        I did not say you have to build it. (Did I?)