US Patent Issued to Google on March 24 for "Quantum circuits for moving a surface code patch" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,974, issued on March 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Quantum circuits for moving a surface code patch" was invented by Matthew James McEwen (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Craig Gidney (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for implementing a quantum circuit that moves a surface code patch of qubits. In one aspect, a method includes performing a first surface code cycle in a system of measure and data qubits. A first CNOT gate is applied to a measure qubit and a first data qubit, where the first data qubit is coupled to the measure qubit in a first direction and the first ...