ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,199, issued on July 1, was assigned to PSIQUANTUM CORP. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods and devices for decoding quantum states" was invented by Naomi Nickerson (San Francisco) and Nicolas Delfosse (Ingre, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for correcting quantum state information are disclosed. A decoder receives information identifying syndrome values for a plurality of entangled qubit states represented by a graph state with a respective edge of the graph state corresponding to a respective qubit state of the plurality of entangled qubit states. The decoder repeats identifying one or more clusters of qubit st...