ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,540, issued on May 13, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.).

"System and method for error correction in quantum computing" was invented by Sonika Johri (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As system is provided for performing a method of receiving a superposition state defined by a sum of a plurality of addends, wherein each addend of the plurality of addends is a product between a corresponding coefficient of a plurality of coefficients and a corresponding state of a plurality of states encoded with block unary encoding. The system may identify at least one error state, of the plurality of states, having a string ...