ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,225, issued on May 13, was assigned to 1372934 B.C. LTD. (Burnaby, Canada).

"Systems and methods for tuning capacitance in quantum devices" was invented by Min Jan Tsai (Richmond, Canada), Emile M. Hoskinson (Vancouver, Canada) and Mark H. Volkmann (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for capacitance tuning of devices in quantum processors are described. One implementation is a quantum processor with a first current path having a first loop, a Josephson structure with at least one Josephson junction interrupting the first loop, a second current path connected to the first current path, and a flux bias. ...