US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 31 for "Geometrically enhanced clifford quantum computer" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,797, issued on March 31, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Geometrically enhanced clifford quantum computer" was invented by Matthew Benjamin Hastings (Seattle), Zhenghan Wang (Goleta, Calif.), Jeongwan Haah (Bellevue, Wash.) and David Alexander Aasen (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure for reducing a qubit count employed by a quantum circuit include performing a geometric transformation to boundaries of a three-dimensional (3D) toric code, wherein a Hermite normal form is utilized to parameterize the geometric transformation. Aspects include transformin...