ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,934, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to RIVERLANE LTD (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Measuring quantum operators" was invented by Earl Campbell (Cambridge, Great Britain), Gyorgy Geher (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Ophelia Crawford Clarke (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method of performing a compound stabiliser measurement operation in a quantum error correction procedure. The compound stabiliser measurement is performed by combining measurement outcomes associated with stabiliser components. The method allows high-weight stabiliser measurements to be performed on quantum processing units ...