US Patent Issued to Alibaba Damo (Hangzhou) Technology on May 13 for "Scalable surface code decoders with parallelization in time" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,251, issued on May 13, was assigned to Alibaba Damo (Hangzhou) Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Scalable surface code decoders with parallelization in time" was invented by Fang Zhang (Bellevue, Wash.), Xinyu Tan (Bellevue, Wash.), Rui Chao (Bellevue, Wash.), Yaoyun Shi (Bellevue, Wash.) and Jianxin Chen (Kirland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Scalable, parallelizable quantum error correction on surface codes can be performed using a decoder graph. Overlapping decoder graph windows can be generated using the decoder graph. First corrections can be independently determined for each of the overlapping decoder graph window...