ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,114, issued on May 20, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Measurement system, method, apparatus, and device" was invented by Tenghui Wang (Hangzhou, China), Hsiang-Sheng Ku (Hangzhou, China), Jingwei Zhou (Hangzhou, China) and Chunqing Deng (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and systems include acquiring initial environmental information corresponding to a superconducting qubit received from a superconducting circuit, the superconducting circuit being in an environment; determining first environmental information corresponding to the superconducting qubit in ...