US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK on July 22 for "Universal fault-tolerant quantum computation with a 2D abelian topological stabilizer code using magic patches" (New York, California, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,416, issued on July 22, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.) and UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Md.).

"Universal fault-tolerant quantum computation with a 2D abelian topological stabilizer code using magic patches" was invented by Guanyu Zhu (Ossining, N.Y.), Tomas Raphael Jochym-O'Connor (Los Angeles), Arpit Dua (Altadena, Calif.) and Maissam Barkeshli (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods are presented regarding applying a non-Clifford logical CCZ gate in a 2D topological code, e.g., a 2D Abelian code. A Kirigami cut and fold process is applied...