US Patent Issued to Google on Nov. 3 for "Global flux bias" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,926, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Global flux bias" was invented by Charles Neill (Goleta, Calif.) and Anthony Edward Megrant (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is presented, including providing an offset magnetic flux bias to a plurality of superconducting qubits and providing respective control magnetic flux biases, for performing a computation, to the plurality of qubits using a plurality of control lines coupled respectively to each qubit. The qubits are configured such that respective resonance frequencies of the qubits are controlled by the offset magnetic flux bias ...