US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Nov. 18 for "Qubit and readout overlap optimization via dipole orientation" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,396, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Qubit and readout overlap optimization via dipole orientation" was invented by Thomas George McConkey (Long Island City, N.Y.), April Carniol (Ossining, N.Y.), Srikanth Srinivasan (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) and Joseph Robert Suttle (Chappaqua, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a first set of circuit components implementing a qubit and a second set of circuit components implementing a readout resonator for reading out a state of the qubit. A first footprint of the first set of circuit components overlaps a second footprint of th...