ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,045, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to IQM FINLAND OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Methods and arrangements for driving a quantum mechanical system with cumulative inputs" was invented by Pasi Lahteenmaki (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver circuit for a qubit comprises a first Josephson junction or first array of Josephson junctions, having a first critical current, and a second Josephson junction or second array of Josephson junctions, having a second critical current. An inductive path connects a first side of the first junction to a first side of the second junction, and ground connections connect respective second sid...