ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,535, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES GmbH (Leipzig, Germany).

"Method and device for addressing qubits, and method for producing the device" was invented by Jan Berend Meijer (Bochum, Germany), Roger John (Leipzig, Germany) and Robert Staacke (Leipzig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of addressing at least one qubit to be addressed in a set of two or more qubits includes exposing the qubit to be addressed to an electromagnetic field; and at a same time exposing another qubit of the set of two or more qubits to an electromagnetic counter field in such a way that the electromagnetic field has no e...