ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,749, issued on July 15, was assigned to IQM FINLAND OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Tunable resonator-resonator coupling circuit and quantum computing apparatus comprising thereof" was invented by Johannes Heinsoo (Espoo, Finland) and Jani Tuorila (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is generally related to the field of quantum computing and particularly to a tunable resonator-resonator coupling circuit that provides both direct and indirect couplings between linear or nonlinear resonators. The indirect coupling is provided by using a tunable coupling element that comprises two ungrounded superconducting islands. Since ...