ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,833, issued on May 12, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Topological qubits in a quantum spin liquid" was invented by Mikhail D. Lukin (Cambridge, Mass.), Vladan Vuletic (Cambridge, Mass.), Markus Greiner (Cambridge, Mass.), Ruben Verresen (Cambridge, Mass.), Ashvin Vishwanath (Cambridge, Mass.), Alexander Keesling Contreras (Cambridge, Mass.), Harry Jay Levine (Cambridge, Mass.), Giulia Semeghini (Cambridge, Mass.), Tout Taotao Wang (Cambridge, Mass.), Ahmed Omran (Cambridge, Mass.), Dolev Bluvstein (Cambridge, Mass.) and Sepehr Ebadi (Cambridge, Mass.).

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