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 .
DETAILED ACTION
Claims 1-22 are presented for examination.
Claims 1 and 17 are rejected.
Claims 2-16 and 18-22 are objected.
This is a Non-Final Action.
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 1 and 17 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 1, recites
“obtaining… a phase value representing a tetrahedral group or supergroup; applying to a qubit… a signal corresponding to the phase value…;” and “measuring… an output of the qubit after applying the signal; determining… the sampled elements and the measured outputs” The “…the sampled elements and the measured outputs” lacks clear antecedent basis due to initial steps being single sampled element and a single measured output. Therefore, it is unclear what group operations and measured outputs are used to determine the full specification of the error channel.
Claim 1 further recites, “a phase value representing a tetrahedral group or supergroup” then recites “a signal corresponding to the phase value presenting an element sampled from the tetrahedral group or supergroup.” It is unclear whether the phase value represents the tetrahedral group or supergroup itself or represents the sampled element.
Appropriate correction is needed.
Claim 17 is similarly rejected.
Allowable Subject Matter
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: Based on examiner’s searching and not finding a combination of prior arts of record as well as IDS dated 09/20/2024, includes an international search report, containing allowance for PCT/US2023/027045 containing identical claim language, was persuasive to include a notice of allowance, specially once the 112(b) rejection in regards to claims 1 and 17 has been overcome.
Based on examiner’s searching, examiner found these prior arts of reference that were relevant but not combination:
Oh et al. (US 2023/0177377) – teaches selecting random rotation angles, applying corresponding single-qubit operations, measuring outputs, constructing an inverse readout-error relationship and correcting a later readout measurement (See Abstract, Figs 4, 6 and related paragraphs), in combination with, Elben et al., (US 2023/0013702) – teaches replacing unstructured random operations with operations randomly selected according to a unitary 2 design system, applying those operations to quantum states, and obtaining corresponding measurement results (Abstract, Paragraph 9, Fig 1-3). However the combination does not teach a tetrahedral group or supergroup and examiner did not find any reference that would be able to combine with the already existing references for an obvious combination.
Claims 2-16 and 18-22 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
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/AMRESH SINGH/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2159
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