US Patent Issued to MIRAEX on Sept. 15 for "Microwave photonic quantum processor" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,658, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to MIRAEX SA (Ecublens, Switzerland).

"Microwave photonic quantum processor" was invented by Nicolas Schwaller (Chernex, Switzerland), Clement Javerzac-Galy (Vulliens, Switzerland) and Olexiy Feofanov (Epalinges, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum processor is provided according to one embodiment of the present invention. The quantum processor uses propagating microwave photons as flying qubits, encoded in a dual-rail configuration. The dual-rail configuration is characterised by the fact that one photon encodes a qubit, and one photon at most is present in a transmission line....