ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,800, issued on March 31, was assigned to Rigetti & Co LLC (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Performing a calibration process in a quantum computing system" was invented by Benjamin Jacob Bloom (Oakland, Calif.), Shane Arthur Caldwell (Oakland, Calif.), Michael James Curtis (Sacramento, Calif.), Matthew J. Reagor (San Rafael, Calif.), Chad Tyler Rigetti (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Eyob A. Sete (Walnut Creek, Calif.), William J. Zeng (Berkeley, Calif.), Peter Jonathan Karalekas (Berkeley, Calif.), Nikolas Anton Tezak (Oakland, Calif.) and Nasser Alidoust (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a general aspect, calibration is performed in ...