ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,128, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Reduction of qubit lattice that includes dead data qubits and auxiliary qubits" was invented by Parsa Bonderson (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and David Alexander Aasen (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system including a processor configured to receive an indication of one or more dead data qubits and one or more dead auxiliary qubits among qubits included in a quantum computing device. The qubits are arranged in a lattice that includes plaquettes. Each of the plaquettes includes data qubits and auxiliary qubits. Th...