ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,568, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Target qubit decoupling in an echoed cross-resonance gate" was invented by Isaac Lauer (Chappaqua, N.Y.) and Neereja Sundaresan (Mount Kisco, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer-implemented methods, and/or computer program products that can facilitate target qubit decoupling in an echoed cross-resonance gate are provided. According to an embodiment, a computer-implemented method can comprise receiving, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, both a cross-resonance pulse and a decoupling pulse at a target qubit. The...