US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on April 7 for "Qubit tuning by magnetic fields in superconductors" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,947, issued on April 7, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Qubit tuning by magnetic fields in superconductors" was invented by Albert Frisch (Stuttgart, Germany), Harry Barowski (Schoenaich, Germany) and Markus Brink (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of a method for qubit tuning includes generating a first magnetic field through a portion of a first layer, the first layer comprising a material exhibiting superconductivity in a cryogenic temperature range, the portion of the first layer above a critical temperature. In an embodiment, the method includes cooling the por...