ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,135, issued on Aug. 25.
"Enhancing the coherence of superconducting quantum bits" was invented by Jurgen Lisenfeld (Karlsruhe, Germany), Alexander Bilmes (Karlsruhe, Germany), Alexey Ustinov (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Johannes Rotzinger (Heidelberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for enhancing the coherence of superconducting quantum bits with electric fields are disclosed comprising providing at least one qubit electrode comprising detrimental defects and intrinsic qubit resonance; and applying an intrinsic parameter of an electric field to the qubit electrode in order to tune the defects away from the qubit resonance,...