US Patent Issued to BULL on Oct. 6 for "Compilation technique for surface code architecture" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,176, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to BULL SAS (Les Clayes sous Bois, France).

"Compilation technique for surface code architecture" was invented by Arnaud Gazda (Versailles, France), Simon Martiel (Versailles, France) and Jon Oillarburu (Saint Martin d'Arberoue, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for implementing a quantum circuit. The method includes generating iteratively a directed acyclic graph (DAG) of the quantum circuit, a front layer of the DAG being a set of Pi/4 Pauli rotation gates that can be effectively implemented at each iteration. The method includes selecting in the front layer of the DAG a ...