ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,755, issued on May 19, was assigned to KBR Wyle Services LLC (Houston).

"System and method using multilayer optical lattice qubit arrays for quantum computing" was invented by Peter Carl Hendrickson (Reston, Va.) and Jadon Daniel Erwin (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum computing (QC) system includes a first plurality of logical qubits in a first substantially planar region and a second plurality of logical qubits in a second substantially planar region that is substantially parallel to the first substantially planar region. At least some of the first plurality of logical qubits are configured to interact with one ...