ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,187, issued on June 9, was assigned to IQM FINLAND OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Qubit reset" was invented by Mikko Mottonen (Espoo, Finland) and Jani Tuorila (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is an objective to provide an arrangement for resetting at least one qubit. According to an embodiment, an arrangement for resetting at least one qubit comprises at least one qubit; an energy dissipation structure selectively couplable to the at least one qubit; and a control unit, configured to reset the at least one qubit by performing: couple the at least one qubit to the energy dissipation structure for a reset period using a control...