ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,140, issued on May 6, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Feed-forward design of three-dimensional quantum chips" was invented by Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo (Wynantskill, N.Y.), Marco Facchini (New York), Zlatko Kristev Minev (White Plains, N.Y.), Thomas George McConkey (Long Island, N.Y.) and Priti Ashvin Shah (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate feed-forward design of three-dimensional quantum chips are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor that executed computer execu...