US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Oct. 6 for "Suppression of spectator effects with capacitively-shunted flux qubit coupler" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,181, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Suppression of spectator effects with capacitively-shunted flux qubit coupler" was invented by Aaron Finck (White Plains, N.Y.) and Muir Kumph (Croton on Hudson, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and/or computer-implemented methods facilitating suppression of spectator effects between qubits are provided. In an embodiment, a device can comprise a tunable-coupler qubit (TCQ), wherein a middle pad of the TCQ is coupled to a first capacitively-shunted flux qubit (CSFQ) coupler and wherein outer pads of the TCQ are coupled to a second C...