US Patent Issued to The University of Chicago on Sept. 2 for "Methods and systems for protecting coherence in qubits" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,247, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to The University of Chicago (Chicago).

"Methods and systems for protecting coherence in qubits" was invented by Kevin C. Miao (Chicago) and David D. Awschalom (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure is directed to devices, systems, and methods for a generation of a decoherence-protected subspace in a quantum system. The decoherence-protected subspace provides the quantum system with reduced sensitivity to environmental magnetic, electric, and thermal noises. Quantum information operation based on the quantum system can be performed while this decoherence-protected subspace is maint...