US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 16 for "Fault tolerant Hastings-Haah codes in the presence of dead qubits" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,400, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Fault tolerant Hastings-Haah codes in the presence of dead qubits" was invented by Matthew Benjamin Hastings (Seattle), Parsa Bonderson (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Zhenghan Wang (Goleta, Calif.), Jeongwan Haah (Bellevue, Wash.) and David Alexander Aasen (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure include removing a faulty qubit in a quantum circuit. The faulty qubit is determined to be in the quantum circuit, the faulty qubit being associated with a plaquette having other qubits, where adjacent plaquettes a...