ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,720, issued on July 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Measuring a N-dimensional quantum system" was invented by Daniel Miller (Wadenswil, Switzerland), Laurin Elias Fischer (Zurich, Switzerland), Panagiotis Barkoutsos (Zurich), Francesco Tacchino (Rueschlikon, Switzerland), Daniel Josef Egger (Thalwil, Switzerland) and Ivano Tavernelli (Wadenswil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a quantum system of dimension M comprising a transmon device. The transmon device is in an initial state Rhoini which is restricted to a state RhoS of a N-dimensional quantum ...