US Patent Issued to Rigetti on Dec. 30 for "Controlling a tunable floating coupler device in a superconducting quantum processing unit" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,567, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Rigetti & Co LLC (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Controlling a tunable floating coupler device in a superconducting quantum processing unit" was invented by Eyob A. Sete (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Stefano Poletto (Orinda, Calif.), Riccardo Manenti (Berkeley, Calif.), Angela Q Chen (Oakland, Calif.) and Shobhan Kulshreshtha (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a general aspect, a superconducting quantum processing unit includes a first qubit device, a second qubit device, and a tunable floating coupler device coupled between the first and second qubit devices. Values of a coupling strength of t...