US Patent Issued to IQM FINLAND on April 14 for "Optical drive for qubits" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,710, issued on April 14, was assigned to IQM FINLAND OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Optical drive for qubits" was invented by Pasi Lahteenmaki (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to delivery of qubit drive signals to a cryogenic environment of a quantum computer. Qubit drive signal(s) may be conveyed to the cryogenic environment as optical signal(s). The optical signal(s) may be transduced to radio frequency signal(s) at the cryogenic environment for driving qubit(s). Apparatuses and methods are disclosed."

The patent was filed on April 28, 2021, under Application No. 18/288,139.

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