Quantum Computing Patents

Updated November 6, 2009

Superconducting qubits

• 7,613,765 Bus architecture for quantum processing (D-Wave)
• 7,613,764 Methods for quantum processing (D-Wave)
• 7,605,600 Systems, methods and apparatus for anti-symmetric qubit-coupling (D-Wave)
• 7,541,198 Method of forming quantum-mechanical memory and computational devices (IMEC/Leuven)
• 7,533,068 Analog processor comprising quantum devices (D-Wave)
• 7,498,832 Arbitrary quantum operations with a common coupled resonator (Northrop Grumman)

Topological Quantum Computing / FQHE

• 7,598,514 Quasi-particle interferometry for logical gates (Microsoft)
• 7,579,699 Systems and methods for performing quantum computations (Microsoft)
• 7,566,896 Lattice platforms for performing quantum computations (Microsoft)
• 7,525,202 Quantum computational systems (Microsoft)
• 7,518,138 Systems and methods for quantum braiding (Microsoft)

Quantum Networking

• 7,596,318 Addressing method of quanta network and quanta network router (University of Science and Technology of China)

Linear Optics qubits

• 7,590,607 Non-unitary probabilistic quantum computing circuit and method (JPL)
• 7,583,438 Quantum circuit and quantum computer (Japan Science and Technology Agency)
• 7,546,004 Photonic interconnect system (HP)

Diamond Centers

• 7,546,000 Scalable and defect-tolerant color-center-based quantum computer architectures and methods for fabricating color-center-based quantum computer architectures (HP)

Universal Quantum Computing

• 7,529,717 Universal quantum computing (MagiQ Technologies, Inc)

Quantum dots

• 7,529,437 Scalable and defect-tolerant quantum-dot-based quantum computer architectures and methods for fabricating quantum dots in quantum computer architectures (HP)

== Spin Wave Quantum Computing

• 7,528,456 Nano-scale computational architectures with spin wave bus (UC)

== Ion Trap Qubit

• 7,518,120 Long-distance quantum communication and scalable quantum computation (University of Michigan)