US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 29 for "Quantum computer designs with core computing and cache regions that utilize lattice surgery" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,726, issued on July 29, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Quantum computer designs with core computing and cache regions that utilize lattice surgery" was invented by Christopher Chamberland (Pasadena, Calif.) and Earl Terence Campbell (Sheffield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for performing lattice surgery without using twists is disclosed. Also, an error correcting code and decoder is provided that allows for error decoding of Pauli measurements performed in association with a lattice surgery operation. This allows for overall run-times of lattice surgery to be reduced. For example, som...