US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 17 for "Logical qubit encoding surface" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,387, issued on June 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Logical qubit encoding surface" was invented by Nicolas Guillaume Delfosse (Bellevue, Wash.), Michael Edward Beverland (Seattle), Jeongwan Haah (Bellevue, Wash.) and Rui Chao (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum computing device is provided, including a logical qubit encoding surface including a plurality of plaquettes. Each plaquette of the plurality of plaquettes may include a plurality of measurement-based qubits. The plurality of measurement-based qubits may include four data qubits and a first ancilla qubit. The first a...