ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,385, issued on June 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Individual qubit excitation control with a global excitation drive" was invented by Rami Barends (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for individual qubit excitation control with a global excitation drive. In one aspect, a method includes accessing a quantum system that comprises a plurality of qubits; a plurality of qubit frequency control lines, each qubit frequency control line corresponding to an individual qubit and controlling the frequency of the qubit; a driveline; a plurality of couplers, each coupler coupling a ...