US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Multimode coupler to control interaction between quantum bits" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,015, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Multimode coupler to control interaction between quantum bits" was invented by Aaron Finck (White Plains, N.Y.), David C. Mckay (Ossining, N.Y.), Jiri Stehlik (New York) and John Blair (Katonah, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device comprises first and second superconducting quantum bits, and a multimode coupler circuit coupled between the first and second superconducting quantum bits. The multimode coupler circuit comprises a first mode and a second mode, and is configured to operate in one of a first state and a second state, in re...