US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 24 for "Mediating coupling of quantum bits using chains of resonators and tunable inductive couplers" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,192, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Mediating coupling of quantum bits using chains of resonators and tunable inductive couplers" was invented by Aaron Finck (White Plains, N.Y.), David Zajac (Valley Cottage, N.Y.) and Jiri Stehlik (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for mediating interactions (e.g., long range interactions) between quantum bits to facilitate quantum computing operations such as two-qubit gate operations. A device comprises a first quantum bit, a second quantum bit, and a coupling bus connecting the first quantum bit and the sec...