ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,329, issued on May 20, was assigned to BULL SAS (Les Clayes sous Bois, France).
"Compilation technique for surface code architecture" was invented by Arnaud Gazda (Versailles, France), Simon Martiel (Versailles, France) and Jon Oillarburu (Saint Martin d'Arberoue, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for implementing a quantum circuit is provided, where the quantum circuit includes qubits and operators executed on the qubits. The operators include a sequence of Pi/4 Pauli rotation gates. A surface code layout includes an arrangement of the quantum circuit on a quantum chip, where the arrangement includes at least a tree ...