ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,172, issued on May 12, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.).

"Efficient quantum gate tuning through statistical modeling" was invented by Chase Parker Zimmerman (Berkley, Calif.), Dominic Widdows (Bellevue, Wash.) and Peter Lukas Wilhem Maunz (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for use in the implementation and/or operation of quantum information processing (QIP) systems or quantum computers, and more particularly, to benchmark-driven automation for tuning quantum computers are described. A method and a system are described for an active stabilization approach for efficient quantum gate tunin...