ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,183, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to RIVERLANE LTD (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Decoding quantum error correction codes" was invented by Ben Andrew Barber (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Kenton Michael Barnes (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for use in decoding syndromes of a quantum error correction code, the syndromes comprising measurement data from a quantum computer comprising a plurality of syndrome qubits and a plurality of data qubits. The method comprises: processing the syndromes to identify defects; recording, in a data structure, respective locations for each defect; a...