ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,691, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Central controller for a quantum system" was invented by Frank Haverkamp (Tuebingen, Germany), Juergen Saalmueller (Holzgerlingen, Germany), Markus Buehler (Schoenbuch, Germany), Tristan Muller (Tubingen, Germany) and Thilo Maurer (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum computing system having a central controller with improved latency executes a first instruction at a processing unit of the central controller. The central controller interconnects a plurality of control entities for configuring and measuring a plurality...