ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,057, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to IQM Finland Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Quantum computing circuit comprising a plurality of chips and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Juha Hassel (Espoo, Finland), Wei Liu (Espoo, Finland), Vasilii Sevriuk (Espoo, Finland), Johannes Heinsoo (Espoo, Finland), Mate Jenei (Espoo, Finland), Manjunath Venkatesh (Espoo, Finland), Tianyi Li (Espoo, Finland), Kok Wai Chan (Espoo, Finland), Kuan Yen Tan (Espoo, Finland) and Mikko Mottonen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum computing circuit is disclosed herein. An example quantum computing circuit includes a first chip...