ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,270, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Single line qubit control" was invented by Julian Shaw Kelly (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Anthony Edward Megrant (Goleta, Calif.), Rami Barends (San Diego), Charles Neill (Goleta, Calif.), Daniel Thomas Sank (Goleta, Calif.), Evan Jeffrey (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Amit Vainsencher (Goleta, Calif.), Paul Klimov (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Christopher Michael Quintana (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum computing device includes: a qubit; a single XYZ control line, in which the qubit and the single control line are configured and arranged such th...