ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,965, issued on June 2, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Qubit surface allocation system" was invented by Kevin Douglas Kissell (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for qubit surface allocation. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request to perform a quantum computation; compiling the request to obtain a program for the quantum computation, wherein the program specifies a first qubit surface required to perform the quantum computation; mapping, based on a quantum processor type and an operational state of an available quantum processor, the first qubit surface ...