ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,072, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Performing qubit mapping taking into consideration crosstalk errors in dynamic quantum circuits" was invented by Derek Wang (New York), Elisa Doreen Baumer (Zurich) and Alireza Seif Tabrizi (Adelphi, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer program product for performing qubit mapping taking into consideration crosstalk errors in dynamic quantum circuits. A cost function is adjusted by taking into consideration the estimated idle time and the measured crosstalk error of the dynamic quantum circuit. Such a cost funct...