US Patent Issued to University of Florida Research Foundation on June 30 for "Qubit state preparation using quantum steering" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,417, issued on June 30, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Qubit state preparation using quantum steering" was invented by Prabhat Mishra (Gainesville, Fla.), Zhixin Pan (Gainesville, Fla.) and Daniel Volya (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum computer prepares system qubits into respective selected states by obtaining an initial steering circuit. The initial steering circuit is a quantum circuit comprising one or more quantum interactions between at least one detector qubit and the system qubits that is performable by the quantum computer. The quantum computer ...