ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,661, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Quantum device facilitating suppression of ZZ interactions between two-junction superconducting qubits" was invented by Aaron Finck (White Plains, N.Y.), April Carniol (Ossining, N.Y.) and John Blair (Katonah, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and/or computer-implemented methods facilitating static ZZ suppression and Purcell loss reduction using mode-selective coupling in two-junction superconducting qubits are provided. In an embodiment, a device can comprise a superconducting bus resonator. The device can further comprise a first ...