US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on June 24 for "Quantum processor unit architecture for quantum computing via an arbitrarily programmable interaction connectivity graph" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,273, issued on June 24, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Quantum processor unit architecture for quantum computing via an arbitrarily programmable interaction connectivity graph" was invented by Irfan Siddiqi (Berkeley, Calif.), Jie Luo (Berkeley, Calif.) and Brian Marinelli (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superconducting quantum processor unit for quantum computing is provided. The processor unit is formed from the union of a qubit chip and a wiring chip with superconducting bonding bumps and spacers. The bumps may be densely distributed around active elements between...