ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,135, issued on April 29, was assigned to Yale University (New Haven, Conn.).
"Quantum information processing with an asymmetric error channel" was invented by Shruti Puri (New Haven, Conn.), Alexander Grimm (New Haven, Conn.), Philippe Campagne-Lbarcq (New Haven, Conn.), Steven M. Girvin (Hamden, Conn.) and Michel Devoret (New Haven, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for performing quantum information processing using an asymmetric error channel are provided. According to some aspects, a quantum information processing includes a data qubit and an ancilla qubit, the ancilla qubit having an asymmetric error channel. The da...