US Patent Issued to Riverlane on Oct. 27 for "Quantum error correction with leakage" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,867, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Riverlane Ltd (Great Britain).

"Quantum error correction with leakage" was invented by Mark Turner (Cambridge, Great Britain), Matthew Stafford (Bristol, Great Britain), Joan Camps Barjau (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Gyorgy Pal Geher (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum computing system and a method of performing a quantum error correction code are disclosed. A determination is made that a leakage event has occurred at a quantum device. A plurality of decoding hypergraph hyperedges potentially affected by the leakage event are determined. The plurality of decodin...