US Patent Issued to Google on Feb. 18 for "Fidelity estimation for quantum computing systems" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,635, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Fidelity estimation for quantum computing systems" was invented by John Martinis (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Nan Ding (Los Angeles), Ryan Babbush (Venice, Calif.), Sergei V. Isakov (Zurich, Switzerland), Hartmut Neven (Malibu, Calif.), Vadim Smelyanskiy (Mountain View, Calif.) and Sergio Boixo Castrillo (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for estimating the fidelity of quantum hardware. In one aspect, a method includes accessing a set of quantum gates; sampling a subset of quantum gates from the set of quantum gates...