US Patent Issued to Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology on Jan. 27 for "Method and apparatus for determining recovery operator using topological structure of rotated surface code" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,462, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for determining recovery operator using topological structure of rotated surface code" was invented by Jeongseok Ha (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hyunwoo Jung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for determining a recovery operator using a topological structure of a rotated surface code. a reliability of n qubits (n being an integer of 1 or more) included in the rotated surface code is determined by using a belief propagation decoding algorithm...