US Patent Issued to UCHICAGO ARGONNE, THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO on March 18 for "Noble gas solid-state single electron qubit platform" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,999, issued on March 18, was assigned to UCHICAGO ARGONNE LLC (Chicago) and THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago).

"Noble gas solid-state single electron qubit platform" was invented by Dafei Jin (Chicago), Xianjing Zhou (Westmont, Ill.), Gerwin Koolstra (Chicago), Ge Yang (Chicago) and David I. Schuster (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Qubit devices require fast operation, long coherence, and large scalability to be viable for implementation in quantum computing systems. A qubit platform device having long coherence, scalability, and fast operation includes a substrate, or trap region, configured to structurally support solid ...