ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,813, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Distillation tile layouts and scheduling within a magic state factory for magic state distillation techniques" was invented by Christopher Chamberland (Pasadena, Calif.) and Prithviraj Prabhu (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for optimizing distillation tile layouts for distillation tiles in a magic state factory of a quantum computer and a scheduling of distilled magic state production (e.g., using temporally encoded lattice surgery based (TELS-based) magic state distillation) using said distillation tiles are disclosed. Customized design...