US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Sept. 16 for "Programmable and reprogrammable quantum circuit" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,290, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Programmable and reprogrammable quantum circuit" was invented by Elbert Emin Huang (Mountain View, Calif.), Charles Thomas Rettner (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Justin Beckley (San Jose, Calif.), Russell A. Budd (North Salem, N.Y.), Vivekananda P. Adiga (Ossining, N.Y.), David C. Mckay (Ossining, N.Y.) and Sarah Elizabeth Sheldon (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and/or computer-implemented methods to facilitate a programmable and/or reprogrammable quantum circuit are provided. According to an embodiment, a device can ...