US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on April 29 for "Efficient synthesis of optimal multi-qubit Clifford circuits" (California, New York, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,127, issued on April 29, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Efficient synthesis of optimal multi-qubit Clifford circuits" was invented by Sergey Bravyi (Ossining, N.Y.), Joseph Latone (San Francisco) and Dmitri Maslov (New Canaan, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques that facilitate efficient synthesis of optimal multi-qubit Clifford circuits are provided. In various embodiments, a system can receive as input a number n representing a quantity of qubits. In various instances, the system can generate, via a cost-invariant reduction function, as output a library of different n-q...