DETAILED ACTION
1. This office action is in response to application 18/331,766 filed on 6/8/2023. Claims 1-20 are pending in this office action.
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
2. The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Objections
3. Claims 4, 11 and 19 are objected to because of the following informalities: the claims are not complete as they do not end with a period. Appropriate correction is required.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
4. In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1-20 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by US 2022/0084085 (hereinafter Rigetti).
As for claim 1 Rigetti discloses: A method for calibrating a quantum processing unit (QPU) for gate-based operations (See paragraphs 0060 ), comprising: identifying, for a QPU configured for full connectivity between qubits, pairs of qubits to be calibrated together by using a single call to a calibration script See paragraphs 0088 and 0214 note the calibration agents are code scripts)., wherein a calibration of each pair of qubits is associated with calibration of a different gate See paragraph 0088 note calibration agents periodically perform recalibration based on information received from gates; and calibrating the identified pairs of qubits in the QPU by making independent, single calls for the calibration script for each of those pairs of qubits identified to be calibrated together See paragraph 0088 note calibration agents periodically perform recalibration based on information received from gates).
As for claim 2 the rejection of claim 1 is incorporated and further Regetti discloses: wherein the pairs of qubits identified to be calibrated together are those pairs of qubits with non-overlapping qubits (See paragraph 0105 note in order to be placed within the same system jobs must be non-overlapping so they can be calibrated together).
As for claim 3 the rejection of claim 1 is incorporated and further Regetti discloses: wherein the identifying of the pairs of qubits to be calibrated together by using the single call to the calibration script is based on an edge coloring problem solution corresponding to a number of qubits in the QPU (See paragraph 0209 note the system show properties of qubits using edge coloring).
As for claim 4 the rejection of claim 1 is incorporated and further Rigetti discloses: wherein the calibration script includes classical computations and state preparation operations (See paragraphs 0088 and 0214 note the calibration agents are code scripts).
As for claim 5 the rejection of claim 1 is incorporated and further Rigetti discloses:, wherein calibrating the identified pairs of qubits in the QPU includes calibrating the different gates associated with the QPU (See paragraph 0088 note calibration agents periodically perform recalibration based on information received from gates).
As for claim 6 the rejection of claim 1 is incorporated and further Rigetti discloses: wherein the QPU includes an ion trap configured to hold ions for use as the qubits of the QPU (See paragraphs 0068 and 0083 note the QPU has an ion trap system).
As for claim 7 the rejection of claim 1 is incorporated and further Rigetti discloses: wherein the pairs of qubits to be calibrated together include two or more pairs of qubits to be calibrated together (See paragraph 0065 note pairs of qubits are controlled by two-qubit quantum logic).
Claims 8-15 are system claims substantially corresponding to the method of claims 1-7 and are thus rejected for the same reasons as set forth in the rejection of claims 1-7.
Claims 16-20 are non-transitory computer readable medium claims substantially corresponding to the method of claims 1-7 and are thus rejected for the same reasons as set forth in the rejection of claims 1-7.
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/Eliyah S. Harper/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2166 February 1, 2026