ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,662, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to PsiQuantum Corp. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Fault-tolerant post-selection for logical qubit preparation" was invented by Karthik Seetharam (Mountain View, Calif.), Sam Roberts (Sydney) and Hector Bombin Palomo (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing fault-tolerant post-selection (FTPS) on an encoded logical qubit. An FTPS controller receives syndrome graph data related to an encoded logical qubit. The encoded logical qubit includes a plurality of physical qubits encoded with a quantum error correcting code. The FTPS controller determines a respective magnitu...