ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,405, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Local pre-matching pass for correlated decoding of quantum error correcting codes" was invented by Michael Gabriel Newman (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for predicting an occurrence of errors in a quantum computation. In one aspect, a method includes updating edge weights of a second quantum error correction detector graph by performing a local search of a first quantum error correction detector graph, wherein performing the local search comprises, for each detection event in the first quantum error correcti...