US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on June 30 for "Tunable quantum coupler facilitating a quantum gate between qubits" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,427, issued on June 30, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Tunable quantum coupler facilitating a quantum gate between qubits" was invented by Jiri Stehlik (New York), Devin Underwood (Bronx, N.Y.), David Zajac (Valley Cottage, N.Y.) and Matthias Steffen (Mount Kisco, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and/or computer-implemented methods to facilitate a quantum gate between qubits using a tunable coupler and a capacitor device are provided. According to an embodiment, a quantum coupler device can comprise a tunable coupler coupled between terminals of a same polarity of a first qubit and a...