US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Sept. 30 for "Generating DC offsets in flux-tunable transmons with persistent current loops" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,579, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generating DC offsets in flux-tunable transmons with persistent current loops" was invented by Devin Underwood (Bronx, N.Y.), Jiri Stehlik (New York), Oliver Dial (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and David Lokken-Toyli (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum circuit device includes a qubit chip including a plurality of qubits and a plurality of flux tunable couplers. A plurality of fixed frequency qubits are arranged in in a lattice structure, wherein each pair of the plurality of fixed frequency qubits is coupled to one flux...