ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,268, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Psiquantum Corp. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Resource efficient logical quantum gates" was invented by Hector Bombin Palomo (Kyoto, Japan), Naomi Nickerson (San Francisco) and Sam Roberts (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing an encoded gate on a logical qubit, wherein the encoded gate includes the port portion and an ancillary portion, and wherein a lower surface of the port portion is coupled to an upper surface of the ancillary portion, includes performing a first plurality of stabilizer measurement on the port portion, performing both single qubit and dual qubit m...