US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on March 11 for "Thermalization and attenuation of signals within quantum computing systems via directional couplers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,851, issued on March 11, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Thermalization and attenuation of signals within quantum computing systems via directional couplers" was invented by Daniel Sank (Goleta, Calif.) and Evan Robert Jeffrey (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to a quantum computing system (QCS) that includes a cryogenic sub-system, a signal-generating element, a first signal-splitting element, a first transmission path, a second transmission path, a third transmission path, and a quantum device. A first environment is located outside the cryogenic sub-system and a...