US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 17 for "Tracking and mitigation of quasiparticle poisoning errors in Majorana quantum computing systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,388, issued on June 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Tracking and mitigation of quasiparticle poisoning errors in Majorana quantum computing systems" was invented by Parsa Bonderson (Santa Barbara, Calif.), David Alexander Aasen (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Christina Paulsen Knapp (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system including a quantum computing device that includes Majorana islands at which Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are instantiated. The computing system further includes a controller configured to control the quantum computing device to perform a joint parity mea...