ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,179, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium).
"Qubit device" was invented by Fahd Ayyalil Mohiyaddin (Kessel-Lo, Belgium), Stefan Kubicek (Pellenberg, Belgium), Clement Godfrin (Brussels), Bogdan Govoreanu (Hulshout, Belgium), Steven Brebels (Heverlee, Belgium), Ruoyu Li (Leuven, Belgium) and George Eduard Simion (Scherpenheuvel-Zichem, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A qubit device includes first and second linear qubit arrays. Each qubit array includes a semiconductor substrate, control gates configured to define a single row of quantum dots along the substrate, and nanomagnets distributed along the row o...