ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,397, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Rigetti & Co LLC (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Calibrating an augmented group of operations for execution on a quantum processing unit" was invented by Stefano Poletto (Orinda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a general aspect, an augmented group of operations is calibrated for execution on a quantum processing unit. In some cases, a quantum program to be executed by a quantum processing unit is obtained. The quantum program includes a sequence of native quantum logic gates. A group of operations corresponding to a time step in the sequence is identified. The group of operations includes the nat...