ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,132, issued on April 29, was assigned to University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Md.) and Duke University (Durham, N.C.).

"Active stabilization of coherent controllers using nearby qubits" was invented by Jungsang Kim (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Kenneth Brown (Durham, N.C.) and Christopher Monroe (Ellicott City, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure describe techniques that involve an active stabilization of coherent controllers using nearby qubits. In an aspect, a quantum information processing (QIP) system for stabilizing phase damping in qubits is described that provides a first and a second qubi...