ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,200, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to ZURICH INSTRUMENTS AG (Zurich, Switzerland).
"Configurable quantum-computing control system" was invented by Flavio Heer (Lufingen, Switzerland), Hussein Kassir (Zurich, Switzerland), Niels Haandbaek (Zug, Switzerland) and Sadik Hafizovic (Zurich, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling a quantum processor includes a system controller having a plurality of input channels and output channels connected to qubit readout instruments and qubit control instruments. The system controller is implemented at least in part as an FPGA. It forms a register bank for receiving the ...