ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,688, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"System and method for parallel implementation of multi-qubit quantum gates" was invented by Hannes Pichler (Pasadena, Calif.), Harry Jay Levine (Cambridge, Mass.), Mikhail D. Lukin (Cambridge, Mass.), Ahmed Omran (Cambridge, Mass.), Alexander Keesling Contreras (Cambridge, Mass.), Giulia Semeghini (Cambridge, Mass.), Vladan Vuletic (Cambridge, Mass.), Markus Greiner (Cambridge, Mass.), Tout Wang (Cambridge, Mass.) and Sepehr Ebadi (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Off...