US Patent Issued to Google on June 23 for "Reducing parasitic interactions in a qubit grid" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,458, issued on June 23, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Reducing parasitic interactions in a qubit grid" was invented by John Martinis (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Rami Barends (San Diego) and Austin Greig Fowler (Reseda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for performing an entangling operation on a system of qubits. In one aspect, a method includes operating the system of qubits, wherein the system of qubits comprises: a plurality of first qubits, a plurality of second qubits, a plurality of qubit couplers defining nearest neighbor interactions between the first qubits and second q...