ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,157, issued on March 25, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Qubit-coupler-qubit model for system calibration" was invented by Kevin Joseph Satzinger (Goleta, Calif.), Andrew Lorne Dunsworth (Goleta, Calif.), Kostyantyn Yevgenovych Kechedzhi (Santa Monica, Calif.), Julian Shaw Kelly (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Charles James Neill (Goleta, Calif.) and Pedram Roushan (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for calibrating and initializing a system comprising a first qubit, a second qubit, and a coupler are provided. A method of initializing the system can include calibrating the system; ...