US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Sept. 9 for "Frequency tuning of multi-qubit systems" (New York, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,482, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Frequency tuning of multi-qubit systems" was invented by Jared B. Hertzberg (Ossining, N.Y.), Jason S. Orcutt (Katonah, N.Y.), Hanhee Paik (Danbury, Conn.), Sami Rosenblatt (White Plains, N.Y.) and Martin O. Sandberg (Ossining, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention includes methods, and the structures formed, for multi-qubit chips. The methods may include annealing a Josephson junction of a qubit to either increase or decrease the frequency of the qubit. The conditions of the anneal may be based on historical conditions, and ma...