ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,382, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Selective optical tuning of qubit two-level system interactions using bandpass filters" was invented by Karthik Balakrishnan (Scarsdale, N.Y.), Abram L. Falk (Port Chester, N.Y.), Martin O. Sandberg (Ossining, N.Y.) and Jason S. Orcutt (Katonah, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for mitigating the effects of defects in a quantum processor are provided. A mitigation system includes a quantum processor comprising a plurality of qubits. The system includes a light emitting source that can be tuned to produce light pulses ...