ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,932, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Two-level-system environment modulation for quantum error correction" was invented by Youngseok Kim (Montvale, N.J.), Malcolm Scott Carroll (Cranbury, N.J.), David Zajac (Valley Cottage, N.Y.), Abhinav Kandala (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Martin O. Sandberg (Ossining, N.Y.) and Jiri Stehlik (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer program products and/or computer-implemented methods for qubit-TLS environment modulation for quantum error correction (QEC) are provided. A system can comprise a memory that can store computer-execut...