US Patent Issued to Imec vzw on Sept. 22 for "Quantum bit chip having a stack of qubit wafers and spacer wafers, and a method for fabricating the quantum bit chip" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,573, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Imec vzw (Leuven, Belgium).

"Quantum bit chip having a stack of qubit wafers and spacer wafers, and a method for fabricating the quantum bit chip" was invented by Jaber Derakhshandeh (Tienen, Belgium), Iuliana Radu (Heverlee, Belgium), Eric Beyne (Heverlee, Belgium) and Bogdan Govoreanu (Hulshout, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a quantum bit (qubit) chip. The qubit chip includes two or more qubit wafers arranged along a common axis and one or more spacer elements. The spacer elements and the qubit wafers are alternately arranged on the common axis. Th...