US Patent Issued to University of Maryland, Duke University on May 13 for "Fault-tolerant scalable modular quantum computer architecture with an enhanced control of multi-mode couplings between trapped ion qubits" (Maryland, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,537, issued on May 13, was assigned to University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) and Duke University (Durham, N.C.).

"Fault-tolerant scalable modular quantum computer architecture with an enhanced control of multi-mode couplings between trapped ion qubits" was invented by Christopher Monroe (Ellicott City, Md.) and Jungsang Kim (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular quantum computer architecture is developed with a hierarchy of interactions that can scale to very large numbers of qubits. Local entangling quantum gates between qubit memories within a single modular register are accomplished using natural interact...