US Patent Issued to Google on Jan. 27 for "Reducing parasitic interactions in a qubit grid for surface code error correction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,463, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Reducing parasitic interactions in a qubit grid for surface code error correction" was invented by John Martinis (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Rami Barends (San Diego) and Austin Greig Fowler (Reseda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for performing a surface code error detection cycle. In one aspect, a method includes initializing and applying Hadamard gates to multiple measurement qubits; performing entangling operations on a first set of paired qubits, wherein each pair comprises a measurement qubit coupled to a neighboring data qubit i...