ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,461, issued on March 17, was assigned to Nanofiber Quantum Technologies Inc. (Tokyo).

"Modular quantum computing system with an optical link and computing region" was invented by Hayata Yamasaki (Tokyo) and Shinichi Sunami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, the present invention provides a modular quantum computer system. The system has at least one quantum computer cell system. In an example, the system has a plurality of qubits comprising a laser coolable atom, ion, nitrogen vacancy center, silicon color center or qubit systems with an optical control capability, such that a number of the qubits range from one to...