ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,783, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Quantum computing systems, apparatus, and methods" was invented by Stefano Pellerano (Beaverton, Ore.), Christopher Hull (Portland, Ore.), Todor Mladenov (Portland, Ore.), JongSeok Park (Hillsboro, Ore.), Ilya Klochkov (St. Petersburg, Russia) and Sushil Subramanian (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for interfacing an integrated qubit control chip and a solid state qubit; detecting a qubit state with a transition pulse histogram; high resolution and high speed rectangular pulse generation; large-scale spin qubit state readout...