US Patent Issued to Google on Oct. 21 for "Low overhead quantum computation using lattice surgery" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,514, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Low overhead quantum computation using lattice surgery" was invented by Craig Gidney (Goleta, Calif.) and Austin Greig Fowler (Reseda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for performing low overhead quantum computations using lattice surgery. In one aspect, an apparatus includes a multi-qubit lattice defining a plurality of qubit rows and plurality of qubit columns, comprising: two or more separate row portions of rotated logical qubits, each row portion comprising a plurality of rotated logical qubits that are each adjacent...