Quantum Patent Applications

SUPERCONDUCTING QUANTUM CIRCUIT AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF, QUANTUM COMPUTER

Granted: October 10, 2024
Application Number: 20240341202
A superconducting quantum circuit and a fabrication method thereof, as well as a quantum computer, belong to the field of quantum computing technology. The superconducting quantum circuit comprises a first superconducting element (21) and a second superconducting element (22) formed on a substrate (1), and a superconducting quantum interference device. The superconducting quantum interference device comprises: a bottom electrode (241) integrally connected to the second superconducting…

A RESOURCE FOR QUANTUM COMPUTING

Granted: October 10, 2024
Application Number: 20240338587
A quantum computing system, method and computer readable medium involve a vacuum chamber, an atom source input associated with the vacuum chamber, a Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) having an interaction region configured to interact with an atom from the atom source, a coupling location for atom positioning, a trapping laser for trapping the atom in the coupling location, an excitation laser for manipulating an electronic state or a nuclear state of the atom, a waveguide for guiding…

PHOTONIC QUANTUM COMPUTATION WITH DIRTY PHOTONS

Granted: October 10, 2024
Application Number: 20240338585
Systems and methods for generating photonic graph states for quantum computing include coupling a quantum emitter to a cavity, generating a first dirty photon having a first temporal profile, using the first dirty photon to form a first photonic qubit, generating a second dirty photon having a second temporal profile, using the second dirty photon to form a second photonic qubit, using the quantum emitter coupled to the cavity to entangle the first photonic qubit with the second photonic…

ANALYZING WEBSITE PERFORMANCE

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240333811
Techniques are described herein for determining an impact of slow performing webpages on a website. For example, a detection system may be provided to determine timing distributions for webpages by analyzing timing measurements for different timing metrics. The detection system may determine ranges of the timing distributions for slow and fast group of users of the website. The detection system may analyze user interactions of slow and fast group of users on the website. The detection…

PROBE APPARATUS, AND MEASUREMENT METHOD AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM OF JUNCTION RESISTANCE OF SUPERCONDUCTING QUBIT

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240329162
Disclosed are a probe apparatus, and a measurement method and a measurement system of a junction resistance of a superconducting qubit. The probe apparatus is configured to measure a superconducting quantum chip, and includes a probe set, a probe control mechanism, and a power supply module; the probe set includes two probes that are independent; the probe control mechanism is configured to control the probe set to be connected to an oxide layer on a surface of an electrode of a…

SUPERCONDUCTING ELECTRONIC SIGNAL OUTPUT CIRCUIT AND READOUT ARRAY

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240328856
A superconducting electronic signal output circuit includes a signal source section configured to provide a voltage and/or current signal. The signal source section comprises a superconducting nanowire single photon detector, SNSPD, a switchable output section connected to the signal source section and having a first superconducting switch configured to selectably cause the signal to be output to an output of the superconducting electronic signal output circuit, and a switchable sink…

ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS EMPLOYING FIELD IONIZATION

Granted: September 26, 2024
Application Number: 20240322019
A method of operating a bipolar transistor having a source, a drain, and a channel electrically coupled to the source and the drain includes applying a bias voltage to a gate electrically coupled to the channel, increasing a conductivity of the channel via field ionization in response to applying the bias voltage, and conducting current from the source to the drain

ELECTROMAGNETOCHEMICAL METHODOLOGY FOR CURING STEEL ALLOYS AGAINST HYDROGEN PERMEATION AND EMBRITTLEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STIRLING ENGINES

Granted: September 26, 2024
Application Number: 20240318612
A Stirling cycle engine with resistance to hydrogen permeation and embrittlement is disclosed, along with methods for manufacturing the same. In a preferred embodiment, an oxide coating is applied as an affinity barrier on the inner surfaces of the gas circuit which may minimize hydrogen permeation and embrittlement. The oxide coating may be in the form of magnetite (Fe3O4) which may bond to the surfaces of the steel alloys of the gas circuit. This process employs an…

SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATED PHOTONIC NOTCH FILTER

Granted: September 19, 2024
Application Number: 20240310582
A notch filter circuit includes a wavelength demultiplexer, a first pump rejection filter coupled to the wavelength demultiplexer, and a second pump rejection filter coupled to the wavelength demultiplexer. The notch filter circuit also includes a first notch filter arm coupled to the first pump rejection filter and including a first chain of asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZIs) and a second notch filter arm coupled to the second pump rejection filter and including a second…

GENERATION AND MEASUREMENT OF ENTANGLED SYSTEMS OF PHOTONIC GKP QUBITS

Granted: September 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240303522
Circuits are provided that create entanglement among qubits having Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) encoding using photonic systems and structures. For example, networks of beam splitters and homodyne measurement circuits can be used to perform projective entangling measurements on GKP qubits from different quantum systems. In some embodiments. GKP qubits can be used to implement quantum computations using fusion-based quantum computing or other fault-tolerant quantum computing…

RECONFIGURABLE QUBIT ENTANGLING SYSTEM

Granted: September 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240303521
According to some embodiments, a system includes a first input coupled to a first qubit and a first switch, wherein the first switch includes a first output, a second output, and a third output. The system further includes a first single qubit measuring device coupled to the first output of the first switch and a second single qubit measuring device coupled to a first output of a second switch. The system further includes a first two qubit measuring device coupled to the second output of…

THIN FILM OPTICAL LENS AND METHOD FOR COATING A LENS

Granted: September 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240302570
A thin film optical lens and method for coating an optical substrate serves to apply alternating layers, with varying thicknesses, of a high index dielectric material and a low index dielectric material on first and second surfaces of an optical substrate. The high and low index dielectric materials are layered through thin film deposition. The low index dielectric material is SiO2. The high index dielectric material is ZrO2 and/or Indium Zinc Oxide. The spectral results from application…

METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A MAGNETIC FLUX DENSITY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUCH A DEVICE

Granted: September 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240302456
A device (10) and a method for determining the magnetic flux density are disclosure which provide a simple and cost-effective sensor unit which still has a good usability. In particular, a correspondingly produced sensor is also very small and can be used in a mobile manner.

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-MODAL PREDICTION USING A TRAINED STATISTICAL MODEL

Granted: September 5, 2024
Application Number: 20240296206
Methods and apparatus for predicting an association between input data in a first modality and data in a second modality using a statistical model trained to represent interactions between data having a plurality of modalities including the first modality and the second modality, the statistical model comprising a plurality of encoders and decoders, each of which is trained to process data for one of the plurality of modalities, and a joint-modality representation coupling the plurality…

POLYPEPTIDE CLEAVING REAGENTS AND USES THEREOF

Granted: September 5, 2024
Application Number: 20240295562
There is provided amino acid cleaving reagents with improved cleavage activity, allowing for more structural information to be obtained from polypeptides in sequencing reactions.

INTEGRATED DILUTION REFRIGERATORS

Granted: September 5, 2024
Application Number: 20240295348
A distributed refrigeration system is provided. The distributed refrigeration system comprises a pre-cooling system configured to be thermally coupled to two or more cryogenic devices and to provide a first cooling stage to the two or more cryogenic devices. The two or more cryogenic devices may be two or more of a dilution refrigerator, a low-temperature microscopy system, a 3He refrigeration system, and/or a superconducting CMOS system.

INTEGRATED DILUTION REFRIGERATORS

Granted: September 5, 2024
Application Number: 20240295347
A dilution refrigerator is provided. The dilution refrigerator includes a plurality of thermalization plates configured to be cooled to a plurality of temperatures, and a first thermalization plate of the plurality of thermalization plates includes an integrated heat exchanger. The integrated heat exchanger includes channels formed in the first thermalization plate, and the channels are configured to allow helium to flow through the first thermalization plate during operation of the…

ENRICHMENT OF NUCLEIC ACID TARGETS

Granted: September 5, 2024
Application Number: 20240294972
Methods and apparatus providing for the isolation of an unknown mutation from a sample comprising wild type nucleic acids and mutated nucleic acids through the application of time-varying driving fields and periodically varying mobility-altering fields to the sample within in an affinity matrix.

Bee Product Extracts, Methods of Production, and Uses Thereof

Granted: September 5, 2024
Application Number: 20240293472
The invention relates to processing methods to produce Bee Product Extracts produced from a Bee Product such as honey, pollen, waxes, or royal jelly; and in particular a Bee Product Extract produced from manuka honey; their uses, methods of preparation and methods of their detection and analysis. The Bee Product Extract of the invention contains phenolics, minerals and proteins coordinated in a complex that undergoes photo-Fenton chemistry process to generate high energy short lived…

MANAGING COUPLING IN A QUANTUM COMPUTING SYSTEM

Granted: August 29, 2024
Application Number: 20240289669
An apparatus comprises: an array of coupled quantum elements in a housing configured to provide a low-temperature environment, where at least one of the quantum elements comprises: a first fluxonium qubit circuit, and a qubit coupling circuit configured to couple the first fluxonium qubit circuit to a second fluxonium qubit circuit, where the qubit coupling circuit comprises a tunable superconducting circuit that has at least one tunable characteristic; and a control module configured to…