ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,396, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Alibaba Innovation Private Ltd. (Singapore).

"Benchmarking protocol for quantum gates" was invented by Jiachen Huang (San Mateo, Calif.) and Jianxin Chen (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing iFRB benchmarking are disclosed. Exemplary systems can include a quantum component and a classical component. The classical component can include at least one processor and at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium. The non-transitory computer-readable medium can contain instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the class...