US Patent Issued to D-WAVE SYSTEMS on Jan. 27 for "Systems and methods for coupling between qubits" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,459, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to D-WAVE SYSTEMS INC. (Burnaby, Canada).

"Systems and methods for coupling between qubits" was invented by Paul I. Bunyk (Pt. Roberts, Wash.), Reza Molavi (North Vancouver, Canada), Kelly T.R. Boothby (Vancouver, Canada) and Mark H. Volkmann (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superconducting integrated circuit has a first superconducting device with a first superconducting loop, where the first superconducting loop has a first superconducting trace in a first layer of the superconducting integrated circuit, and a second superconducting device with a second superconducting loop, whe...