ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,857, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to KBR WYLE SERVICES LLC.

"System and method using multilayer qubit lattice arrays for quantum computing" was invented by Peter Carl Hendrickson (Reston, Va.) and Jadon Daniel Erwin (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum computing (QC) system that includes a plurality of qubits arranged substantially in a plurality of substantially planar regions that are substantially parallel to one another, at least some of the substantially planar regions including two or more qubits and one or more qubits of each substantially planar region configured to interact with one or more qubits of at ...