ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,456, issued on June 23, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Characterization of quantum logic gates via dynamical decoupling" was invented by Jonathan Arthur Gross (Venice, Calif.), Dripto Mazumdar Debroy (Los Angeles), Ze-Pei Cian (Mountain View, Calif.), Matthew Gary Neeley (Goleta, Calif.) and Zhang Jiang (El Segundo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example aspect of the present disclosure is directed to a method for characterizing a multi-qubit logic gate operating on a pair of qubits. The method includes iteratively performing, via a multi-qubit quantum circuit, a set of serial operations on the pair o...