US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on May 5 for "Laser on-demand scrambling of two-level systems in superconducting qubits" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,899, issued on May 5, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Laser on-demand scrambling of two-level systems in superconducting qubits" was invented by Abram L. Falk (Port Chester, N.Y.), Martin O. Sandberg (Ossining, N.Y.), Karthik Balakrishnan (Scarsdale, N.Y.), Oliver Dial (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Jason S. Orcutt (Katonah, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for mitigating the effects of defects in a quantum processor are provided. A mitigation system uses an iterative process of applying light pulses and examining qubit relaxation times to eliminate or minimize two-level syste...