DETAILED ACTION
This action is in response to the claims filed 10/27/2023 for Application number 18/557,838. Claims 1-14 are currently pending.
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Priority
Receipt is acknowledged of certified copies of papers required by 37 CFR 1.55.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statements (IDS) submitted on 01/25/2024, 04/01/2025, and 12/09/2025 are in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statements are being considered by the examiner.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claims 6-9, 11 and 14 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
Claim 6 recites the limitation "the number of wires" in line 2. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claim 7 recites the limitation "the quantum state of the logical qubit" in line 2. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claim 8 recites the limitation "the ratio of the frequency" in line 2 and the limitation “the code distance of the logical qubit” in line 3. There is insufficient antecedent basis for these limitations in the claim.
Claim 11 recites the limitation "the qubit" in line 2. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim. It is unclear which qubit the claim is referring back to as claim 1 recites a plurality of qubits
Claim 14 recites the limitation "the calculation" in the last limitation of the claim. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-5, 10, and 12-13 are allowed.
Claims 6-9, 11, and 14 are objected to as being allowable over prior art if all outstanding rejections were withdrawn. None of the prior art, either alone or in combination, fairly discloses limitations of claims 1 and 14 in particular:
...generating a control signal for performing one or more types of spatially uniform first operation and one or more types of spatially non-uniform second operation performed less frequently than the first operation, which are operations for the qubits on the qubit substrate, and an instruction signal to cause the control circuit to control the first operation and the second operation…
The closest prior art uncovered was Magnard et al. (“Microwave Quantum Link between Superconducting Circuits Housed in Spatially Separated Cryogenic Systems”) discloses a method using Superconducting circuits which are strong contenders for realizing quantum computing systems and the successful operation of a cryogenic waveguide coherently linking transmon qubits located in two dilution refrigerators separated by a physical distance of five meters (Abstract) however does not explicitly teach generating a control signal for performing one or more types of spatially uniform first operation and one or more types of spatially non-uniform second operation performed less frequently than the first operation, which are operations for the qubits on the qubit substrate, and an instruction signal to cause the control circuit to control the first operation and the second operation
Ma et al. (“US 20230276719 A1”) discloses a method for fabricating a superconducting quantum chip that includes a base substrate on which signal transmission lines are formed however fails to explicitly teach generating a control signal for performing one or more types of spatially uniform first operation and one or more types of spatially non-uniform second operation performed less frequently than the first operation, which are operations for the qubits on the qubit substrate, and an instruction signal to cause the control circuit to control the first operation and the second operation
Conclusion
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/MICHAEL H HOANG/PRIMARY EXAMINER, Art Unit 2122
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