ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,755, issued on May 27, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Quantum circuit with Josephson multipole isolator" was invented by Matthew Beck (Danbury, Conn.) and Michael Karunendra Selvanayagam (Ossining, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more systems, devices, methods of use and/or methods of fabrication provided herein relate to a device that can facilitate qubit measurement with isolation imposed between a quantum processor and a respective qubit measurement circuit and/or which respective qubit measurement circuit can have a small footprint, such as within a respective cryogenic chamber o...